Crystal Castles

some of the softer songs are, weirdly, pretty reminiscent of Mylene Farmer (esp. the single).

they're on a more manic thing than gang gang dance, but that's who they make me think of these days. sort of a post-everything dance band.

Actually really looking forward to following this band in the future. I just wish Alice would differentiate herself from Karen O a little more.

I got worked up for a moment, then I realized its Crystal Stilts I'm partial to. Oh well...

sampling Sigur Ros like this is nagl imo

Castles fans should listen to some DAT Politics.

still on my first listen, but i'm enjoying this! unsurprising, though, b/c i really liked their last record

wasn't even planning on buying it or listening to it, but randomly picked it up when i saw it in the "new" section of my local record store earlier. glad i did!

HOLY SHIT is "Not In Love" gorgeous

like, ridiculously so

I really wish they'd tone down the massive self-conscious hipster bullshit thing they've got going because some of their music is really quite affecting. I like the last track that sounds like they're wrenching animal noises out of their equipment.

I'm really loving this album. I haven't heard anything off their first record save "courtship dating" so I don't really understand the connections to 8-bit or that scene because I'm not getting it so much off this one. The music sounds more like A Sunny Day in Glasgow than anything else.

xpost animals drowning. It works in their favor that they've used these noisier moments sparingly. The harsh vs comforting sound of this album is really satisfying.

nick from diamonds is reporting that these dudes died of PCP overdose.

wait - both of them?

hm.... he's also posting that the New Pornographers all died in a fiery bus crash. I think he's fantasizing out loud.

Yeah, pretty hilarious.

These sorts of 'jokes' = dud

maybe the New Pornographers did die and Crystal Castles were just trying to blatantly rip them off?

RIP

hope you're being a pair of unpleasant turds in heaven

Er, wow. Saw them in Nottingham last night, really wasn't expecting much - but that was the best gig I've seen this year. (Well, I say "seen" - the band were barely visible behind the smoke and strobes). The music scales up brilliantly, tracks like Crimewave and Baptism turning into thunderous juggernauts.

i'd like to see them based on what you say. LP favourites are 'Empathy' and 'I Am Made Of Chalk'.

This is awesome.

loving this

Okay, when did this band decide to actually go from bad to great?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32udqal_lyQ

I've avoided the second album until now because I just assumed it was more of the first.

This sounds good with Robert Smith. I can finally make sense of the lyrics. I wasn't that off I think:

NOT IN LOVE

I found your picture
in the back of my door.
Wont keep you at home, no one lives here anymore.
and now it burns
now we can't be friends
nothing here should end
Here we go again. Bwa bwa bwa.
Cause it's cold outside, when you coming home?
cause it's hot inside, we could lay in the park.

I'm not in love

Could it be that time has taken it's toll
won't take you so far, I am in control
and now it burns
now we can't be friends
nothing here should end
Here we go again. Bwa bwa bwa.
Cause it's cold outside, when you coming home?
cause it's hot inside, we could lay in the park.

I'm not in love
We are not in love

― Moka

transcribe crystal castles lyrics

The new album is fantastic.

I like the first album but then again I also like Atari Teenage Riot and Severed Heads

Why does no-one mention 'Celestica' on this thread?!? Top ten for me this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JITI0FskSG0

Holy shit this song with Robert Smith is amazing.

yeah 1st album was OK but the new one is pretty great

also when did these guys start writing way better Cure lyrics than RS has come up with in the last decade?

Damn, never realised that was actually a cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1_PM5nLZeI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

HOLY SHIT is "Not In Love" gorgeous

― ksh, Tuesday, May 25, 2010 11:39 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

like, ridiculously so

― ksh, Tuesday, May 25, 2010 11:39 AM (5 months ago)

wow the original is pretty amazing. that band was wearing the wrong clothes.

Why does no-one mention 'Celestica' on this thread?!?

My favourite track on the second album, and one of the highlights of last week's gig. (Tears in my eyes, ahem.)

I was wondering why these people were trending on Twitter and it makes much more sense now.

been playing this on repeat since yesterday

Wow it's so strange to hear Robert Smith sing a Platinum Blonde song! When I was a child The Cure was my favorite band and Platinum Blonde was the biggest band in Canada. Too bad they never hit outside of the country. BTW they had that look 5 years before Poison came out.
This is imo their best song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4SOnBDe7qs

Haha, I got that Platinum Blonde album when I was a kid from one of those grab bag things where you get 10 mystery LPs in a brown paper bag for like a buck or something. I think I listened to it quite a bit at the time. Judging from that video, I'd say they haven't really stood the test of time.

finally they live up to their thread title

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTBccJpTjs0

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

HOLY SHIT is "Not In Love" gorgeous

― ksh, Tuesday, May 25, 2010 11:39 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

like, ridiculously so

― ksh, Tuesday, May 25, 2010 11:39 AM (5 months ago)

― (crüt) (markers) (crüt) (markers) (crüt) (markers), Tuesday, October 26, 2010 6:20 PM (1 month ago)

So much better with Robert Smith on the vocal.

wow I am very late to this party, "violent dreams" (with the stina nordenstam samples) is amazing.

assholes or not, their new album is seriously gorgeous and danceable. although it's not a great car album, had me in a trance while I should have been watching the road, had to turn it off!

It's awesome, and way better than that piss-poor Kanye album that's one all the awards.

But I find it odd yet predictable that the band REALLY caught on with the high-school crowd. My 14 year old sister adores the band, as do all her friends, and when they recently played here in Boulder (well I'm in Denver, but anwyay:) for NYE apparently the # of 17 year old girls was abhorring, according to friends who go to school up there. I guess they've got that perfect blend of great hooks and obvious attitude/image that the under 20 crowd really latches onto.

way to bring up kanye in a thread that has nothing t odo with him!

haha imo it was just such, such, such a better contender for album of the year. i didn't listen to an awful lot from 2010 but it rly struck me as the single-handed most solid album of the year entire... there's not one song that lacks any less luster than the one preceding or post.