Crystal Castles

My light show consisted of red, blue and white lights. They had the cover-art as a backdrop but otherwise it was a surprisingly boring concert. There was one particularly hilarious girl, though, who could perform the same dance move in anything over 30-second intervals.

OK, so I don't know if she did this at your (fellas) shows, but there was a particularly cool instance in which Alice was held up by the crowd while on her *knees*. As in, her body was upright and continuing to sing but the crowd held onto her bent legs in order to sustain such. Khan, I think his name is, was just very meditative and I thought the fact that he placed his synth on boxes of carrying equipment an odd but sorta interesting choice.

Otherwise, Glass just had one leg propped up on a speaker and shouted directly at the crowd. For a little too long. I've seen live shows and she did considerably less jumping around and all such I've seen in YouTube clips. They've stopped an incredibly number of times in Denver/Boulder, so maybe the thrill of novelty was wearing on them.

Fascination ends

That cover with Mr. Smith is currently wrapping up three years of my life on just the necessary note, so.

heard "affection" today in the brooks brothers store in downtown princeton

A month late but their set opening for Depeche in LA was great because they did NOT give a fuck. Or rather they did, by being exactly themselves and if the crowd didn't like it, fuck 'em. Great times.

Not in Love (album version) is one of the best songs ever recorded. Didn't love their most recent release -- it felt familiar, gratuitous almost -- but this band is a classic band.

Fun fact: Once i was in brooks brothers shopping for ties and they were playing Celestica.

are you sure it wasn't "affection"?

100% sure, 100% of the time. Guaranteed.™

as long as that's the one without the lead singer of the cure whose name escapes me at the moment

^gets it. The original version of not in love (w/ Alice Glass vocals) is infinitely better

I dont want to be all "I prefer the early stuff" but AIR WAR was as good as it got for me with these guys. Second album was ok, third one was rubbish.

'Not in Love' is good, I think after hearing the Platinum Blonde original kinda makes me wanna hear more power-stadium-pop mix ups by CC.

I'm thinking 'Surrender'

Alice has announced on Twitter that she is leaving the band.

http://twitter.com/ALICEGLASS

you are nothing without your robot car, poetry girl

this sucks, although i understand it. the most recent crystal castles album was good but felt redundant. the first two albums are classics of the late aughts.

this sucks, although i understand it. the most recent crystal castles album was good but felt redundant. the first two albums are classics of the late aughts.

― Treeship, Wednesday, October 8, 2014 8:26 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it feels like a shame, but then, successive releases would have likely continued this trend. so it's probably for the best. maybe her solo stuff won't suck?

and so castles made of crystal, fall into the sistal, eventuallistal

having fallen hard for III this week, so, i have just ordered I and II via amazon marketplace

total price incl. postage : £6.66

how more goth can you get.

happened to listen to crystal castles (ii) today. was reminded of what bullshit the robert smith version of "not in love" is.

used to be heavy on one of my pandora stations, a really good productivity music band iirc

classic band

even if they plagiarized posters or whatever

new album, guess no one cares anymore

Quite a journey from first to last post huh

Most recent album was pretty good. Alice Glass ep was even better.

Alice Glass has just posted more fully about Ethan Kath and why she left the band. Trigger warnings noted, this is not an easy read.

http://www.alice-glass.com/cc/

holy fuck that is horrible

this is really awful. I love the first two crystal castles albums but they won’t sound the same to me anymore. i was always a fan of her vocals. she seemed so powerful — sometimes frightening — i never would have imagined that this was the actual dynamic in that band.

Wow, what a tough read. Kudos to her for finally getting out from his manipulative, abusive grip and calling him out on it.

this is really awful. I love the first two crystal castles albums but they won’t sound the same to me anymore. i was always a fan of her vocals. she seemed so powerful — sometimes frightening — i never would have imagined that this was the actual dynamic in that band.

― Treeship, Tuesday, October 24, 2017 6:57 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, this. Although we may have to have the good old bad-people-often-make-good-art-but-actually-let's-not-financially-support-this-fuck conversation.

Also, this story is out of the blue to me (and to this thread) but apparently it's not the first time she's spoken out - from the Crystal Castles Wikipedia page;

In early 2016, the band was included in the announced lineup for the 79 Cents event at SXSW, a concert showcase organized by Tumblr to highlight women's income disparity. Shortly after, this choice was criticized by former member Alice Glass:

As someone who knew Ethan Kath on a personal and professional level, it is my opinion that he is not an appropriate artist to be performing at a feminism-centric event.
— Alice Glass, in interview with The Verge

In reaction to this statement, the band was removed from the lineup.

didn't these guys use a woman with a black eye as an album cover once

can we change thread title to Crystal Castles (suck)

Idk “Black Panther” and the album version of “Not in Love” are amazing tracks

xp It was Madonna with a black eye, and they were sued by the artist for using it without his permission.

http://i51.tinypic.com/wmmqtf.jpg

It was pretty bad then, much worse with this context now.

I never really thought about the dude. My emotional investment in the band was based on loving the albums and being a fan of her as a vocalist, performer, and personality. So it’s an odd situation in terms of what to think of this material now.

Jesus I forgot about that.

Xp

I would also request that mods remove "rule" from the thread title

I never listened to this band but is their music really no longer good

don't need it replaced with "sucks" or whatever it's just....a little uncomfortable to leave it as is

Crystal Castles (problematic)

Maybe start a new thread? I know that ilx unlike other boards does encourage the use of older threads, but rather than retconning the opinions of a decade ago we could just move the discussion to somewhere with a more appropriate title.

looks like somebody fixed it

Didn't we already knew Ethan Kath was a huge douchebag? He wrote this when Alice released her first solo single:

https://i.imgur.com/0VNlN10.png

yeah you totally don't care dude

https://i.imgur.com/0VNlN10.png

yeah I remember that happening, and people generally thinking he was a fucking dickbag because of it. I certainly never gave them any time again after she left

Also someone should tell him CC best known song is Crimewave.

You know in the context of Alice's statement that facebook post from Ethan is proof that he is an insecure piece of shit and he did enjoy undermining her.

Seems all of CC upcoming concerts have been cancelled. Hope this is a career killer for him.