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Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
| Allmusic |
| No matter how much Crystal Castles insist they're named after She-Ra's fortress and not the 1983 arcade favorite, thanks to the Atari sound chips in their keyboards, their music evokes vintage video game soundtracks -- albeit ones that have been folded, spindled, and mutilated almost past recognition. On their self-titled debut, Crystal Castles (aka Ethan Kath and Alice Glass) hurl eight-bit bleeps, bloops, and noise as relentlessly as Space Invaders marching down a screen, turning these sounds into sometimes chaotic, sometimes moody synth pop with a jagged edge....full text |
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| Pitchforkmedia |
| Crystal Castles prefer traveling light. While the hotly-tipped and already hotly-contested Toronto duo's basement party set-up doesn't look like it'll fill up the passenger seat on a tour van, they also like to play fast and loose with their associations. They've remixed at a Hot Chip-like pace for everyone from Bloc Party to Uffie to Klaxons, but they're not a part of your nu-rave genre (really, who is?), or blog house for that matter. Their debut LP partly picks from 7" and 12"s that have been available in some format since 2005, and it's every bit as difficult to pin down....full text |
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| Urb |
| Asked to describe their aesthetic, Crystal Castles dynamo Alice Glass says, "large, shiny chunks of vomit." Vomit, like a kaleidoscope, is composed of infinite particles, diamond cut molecules coated in acid, a chaotic masterpiece as revolting as it is beautiful and raw. That's pretty much true of CC's debut album. Producer Ethan Fawn's dynamic overlays of crisp, factory-stomped melodic lines carry Glass's unintelligible lyrics straight to neon-lit nausea heaven. It seems she managed to swallow a megaphone and regurgitates something about feelings. At times she sounds sad, trapped in She-ra's digital fortress in the sky....full text |
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