"Crystal Castles", the name comes, just imagine, from 1984 Atari adventure game called Crystal Castle, and this is how indie music website Pitchfork described the music style "p
itch-shifted vocal snippets [that] ricochet like pinballs around Crystal Castles' patented 8-bit synths", what else can i say...a new point of view through electronic music.They have two faces, the first one is that their tracks were made from Crystal Castles everyone has heard about, they describe their style as "thrash/thrash/thrash" and routinely cause riots at their live performances. The other Crystal Castles face on display here are better suited for post-rave chillout listening, no resemblance to their psyche-smashing alter-ego. 16 tracks, it's just too much in the album, this one could have easily been cut down into something truly mind-blowing. Either way, the result is like playing Mario inside a disco....extremely enjoyable!
itch-shifted vocal snippets [that] ricochet like pinballs around Crystal Castles' patented 8-bit synths", what else can i say...a new point of view through electronic music.They have two faces, the first one is that their tracks were made from Crystal Castles everyone has heard about, they describe their style as "thrash/thrash/thrash" and routinely cause riots at their live performances. The other Crystal Castles face on display here are better suited for post-rave chillout listening, no resemblance to their psyche-smashing alter-ego. 16 tracks, it's just too much in the album, this one could have easily been cut down into something truly mind-blowing. Either way, the result is like playing Mario inside a disco....extremely enjoyable!Crystal Castles Myspace
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