man fuck this band http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/05/05/chiptune-music-theft-continues-crystal-castles-abuses-creative-commons-license/
― bell_labs, Friday, 9 May 2008 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
wau
still ike the album, tho
― HI DERE, Friday, 9 May 2008 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
are they actually going to get in any trouble for this?
― braveclub, Friday, 9 May 2008 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Likely, eight fewer people will buy the album, thus cutting their sales in half.
― I eat cannibals, Friday, 9 May 2008 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link
(I downloaded the album on SLSK. Take that, hypocrisy!)
― I eat cannibals, Friday, 9 May 2008 17:09 (sixteen years ago) link
the also apparently stole this dudes art http://www.pileup.com/babyart/blog/?p=81
they sound like really awesome people
― bell_labs, Friday, 9 May 2008 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
first line of a review i wrote a few months ago: "Crystal Castles are easier to like when you don’t know much about them."
they do sound like dicks, probably, but in that creative commons article i couldn't get past the phrase "some in the hard-core chiptune community." the album's still one of my favorites of the year.
― tipsy mothra, Friday, 9 May 2008 17:14 (sixteen years ago) link
DisappointED, even. Although I am a little disappointing as well.
http://fonejacker.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/provindings.gif
― the next grozart, Friday, 9 May 2008 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm still on the fence about these guys. When I heard that track on Skins, while I thought it fit really well with the scene, I thought it was kind of rubbish. Then I downloaded the album anyway and changed my mind - I thought Alice Practice was great. Right now though, that's the only one I can really dig.
― the next grozart, Friday, 9 May 2008 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I think what annoys me is they sound like the Knife (which shouldn't be a bad thing) but with loads of Amiga chip sounds all over it (which neither should be a bad thing) - I guess I just overloaded on the Knife in 2006 and I'm not really in the mood for hearing them again.
― the next grozart, Friday, 9 May 2008 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link
That's still eight people too many buying the album.
― mehlt, Saturday, 10 May 2008 01:09 (sixteen years ago) link
i listened to about 30 seconds of their myspace and could not stand the vocals. the rest is gameboy camera 2002. why the fuck is this band popular is it just that the singer has a vagina and is almost cute?
― bell_labs, Saturday, 10 May 2008 01:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm really into this now too.
― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 10 May 2008 01:54 (sixteen years ago) link
case in point
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 10 May 2008 01:55 (sixteen years ago) link
are they actually popular? i can't even tell. i like it because i guess i like kinda moody synth music with hooky vocal loops and occasional squelchy noise.
― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 10 May 2008 03:03 (sixteen years ago) link
(however as the last remaining person to admit liking the first fischerspooner album i am not to be trusted.)
― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 10 May 2008 03:05 (sixteen years ago) link
They're popular in the way that Justice are popular I think, you can't quite dismiss them as an internet fad, there's definitely a groundswell of something going on here, but it won't actually translate into selling many records.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 10 May 2008 11:07 (sixteen years ago) link
The first people I know locally to go on & on about Crystal Castles were big Klaxons fans. The flyers for their nu-rave clubnight used Extreme Animals artwork without attributing it at all, heh.
― etc, Saturday, 10 May 2008 11:43 (sixteen years ago) link
i did not watch skins. but still a 'rule of' 3 purchase for me. i'm not sold on it, but a couple of tracks mean i will re-listen.
― Alan, Saturday, 10 May 2008 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link
(but i did catch them actually being on skins, now i mention it!)
― Alan, Saturday, 10 May 2008 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link
however as the last remaining person to admit liking the first fischerspooner album i am not to be trusted.)
-- tipsy mothra, Saturday, May 10, 2008 3:05 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark
i will admit to listening to a lot of 8-bit and gameboy music at the beginning of the decade but this crystal castles shit still sucks
― bell_labs, Saturday, 10 May 2008 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link
These guys just aren't very good at dance music, sorry.
― Bodrick III, Saturday, 10 May 2008 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I kinda like some of the music. Don't love it or anything, but the noiser/screamy stuff is okay. After reading about the Trevor Brown business, though, just fuck them.
― contenderizer, Saturday, 10 May 2008 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
what are some 8-bit and gameboy groups??
― poortheatre, Saturday, 10 May 2008 18:04 (sixteen years ago) link
God, why do chiptunes even exist. I see absolutely no redeeming value or merit of any kind in it. Even still, I can tolerate it, but Crystal Castles, hell no.
― mehlt, Saturday, 10 May 2008 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
nostalgia maybe? it's the only music that makes me want to cry.
― poortheatre, Saturday, 10 May 2008 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link
is it just that the singer has a vagina and is almost cute?
Charming! Real nice.
― Savannah Smiles, Saturday, 10 May 2008 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
the vagina or the singer?
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 10 May 2008 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
eyes lit I want short breasts I adore my boobs nice breasts in the summer in to rub hands
always & forever
― czn, Sunday, 11 May 2008 13:53 (sixteen years ago) link
There's a Myspace site aggregating the various instances of alleged theft:
http://www.myspace.com/crystaltheft
― moley, Monday, 26 May 2008 04:49 (fifteen years ago) link
lol timbaland listens to these dudes
― and what, Friday, 30 May 2008 23:57 (fifteen years ago) link
what is the delayed English kids chatter in 'Air War' from?
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link
It's Alice reading from Ulysses in a funny voice.
― Owen Pallett, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 20:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Alice is hawt amirite?
― Moka, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 03:13 (fifteen years ago) link
yep, n hxc
― yungblut, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 03:57 (fifteen years ago) link
nope. they both look rubbish:
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/2395824/Crystal+Castles+teaser_291.jpg
― meme economist (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.greencine.com/images/static/moonraker_jaws.jpg
― sippin margaritas on the beach in my adidas (and what), Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link
id still drop a load off in her
id crystallize her castle
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link
that one was also sexual
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
wish she'd bit my 8
― sippin margaritas on the beach in my adidas (and what), Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
she kind a reminds me of karen o in the 'inexplicably lusted after indie chick' stakes.
― meme economist (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
hey, you're on the internet talking about famous people you wouldnt have sex with
― sippin margaritas on the beach in my adidas (and what), Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
sadtrombone.wav
http://idolator.com/5245692/crystal-castles-still-brawlin
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMmkHf4qE9Q
Crystal Castles at Sonar. Apparently they blew their speakers while performing which made Alice berserk. She punches a security guard and starts tearing apart the drum set. The kick drum lands on the sound engineers legs as he tries to stop Alice from doing more stupid shit. At the end of the video it seems kath goes running into a fight with the sound engineer but it cuts off. Anyone was there to explain what happened?
― Moka, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 08:04 (fourteen years ago) link
duh hadn't clicked xpost above mine :P
― Moka, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 08:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Good things come to people who have no patience: After today's leak, Crystal Castles have bumped up the release of their second album (also self-titled) to tomorrow.
― Evan R, Thursday, 22 April 2010 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Gotta say, I'm a little disappointed that they've apparently decided they're too cool for videogame sound effects. That they blatantly ripped off the chiptune scene that they claimed to have no idea existed. But that's sorta besides the point when their songs were so fucking great.
― OffensiveBeard, Sunday, 25 April 2010 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.american.com/archive/2010/february/soul-music
― iatee, Sunday, 25 April 2010 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I stopped listening to them because of their ongoing assholishness - we're all assholes some or a lot of the time but these guys take it too goddamn far, there's enough other good music that I'll be fine if I miss out on a good CC jam because of my reactionary stance
― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 25 April 2010 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Excellent news
― Simon H., Friday, 23 February 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link
katherine otm
I really liked this band and definitely part of that was this obscurely sinister aspect of their sound, but now those features can only be understood as sickening. But only in retrosepcr. At the time I never thought it “sounded like a woman being abused,” I thought it sounded like a dynamic, unusal vocalist giving voice to feelings like desperation and anger.
― treeship 2, Friday, 23 February 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link