notes on crystal castles the band

CRystal CasTLES are an electronic duo from Toronto Ontario Canada made up of Ethan Kath and Alice Glass (Awesome last name by the way) and they are a band that sounds like they got stuck in the 1980's video game world but this isnt just a crappy mario theme song band no this band has hooks leads and very punky vocals coming from alice.it all started when kath got glass to come and do a soundcheck and with that kath made the song alice practice and released it onto the web and they gained attention from internetjunkies and they, crystal castles, got signed to the surprise of glass because she didnt even know that the song alice practice existed. the rest was history.

CRYSTAL CASTLES:
1. untrust us.
2. alice practice.
3. crimewave.
4. magic spells.
5. xxzxcuzx me.
6. air war.
7. courtship dating.
8. good time.
9. 1991.
10. vanished.
11. knights.
12. love and caring.
13. through the hosiery.
14. reckless.
15. black panther
16. tell me what to swallow.

one sentence comment for every song:

1. the singing is weird as hell and the beat is bursting video game moves by the second.
2. "hi!" chaotic punky voice says hi to the chaotic beat in this song.
3. i can say i love the vocals in this song totally amazing lyrics are questionable.
4. zelda thats the first video game i cna think of haha love this song.
5. wow if alice practice was chaotic this song is 10x more chaotic.
6. are those kids voices? what the hell are they saying rofl, seriously.
7. hell yeah, i can dance to these chips right here the screaming is the best.
8. relaxing i like the lyrics they make me feel like her voice is the only thing.
9. meh its not screaming crystal castles for me boringish.
10. the guys vocals? hmm i like this change there are times when glass is meh.
11. sounds like phazers going off and chip like that, ethan kath is singing.
12. alice is back with her punky voice, with the usually cute synth back up.
13. wierd already and very meh, hey now its upbeaty nice.
14. for the sake of the title the music sounds nothing reckless its cute and not reckless.
15. fast very upbeaty the usual cute synth, but alice has her vocals looped and filtered.
16. first signs of guitar and its probably the most developed song hints to CC II.

overall very video gamey as in retro video games and punky indeed.

CRYSTAL CASTLES II:
1. Fainting spells.
2. Celestica.
3. Doe Deer.
4. Baptism.
5. Year of Silence.
6. Empathy.
7. Suffocation.
8. Violent Dreams.
9. Vietnam.
10. Birds.
11. Pap Smear.
12. Not in Love.
13. Intimate.
14. I am Made of Chalk.
15. Not in Love ft. Robert Smith.
16. Seed.
17. Insectica.
18. Mother Knows Best.

holy crap... ok one sentence per song:

1. it feels like magic spells pt. 2 but its awesome how they make it upbeaty and catchy.
2. it sounds alot more modern than the first album the vocals matured, i feel a club mix.
3. LOUD!!! SCREAMING from Kath and Glass, this is very chaotic nice song though.
4. upbeat. i really love alices voice on this song the beat is fenominal fav song on here.
5. it sounds bassy but theres no bass which is funny lyrics sound like non-sense babeling.
6. the beat is very sharp the vocals have lots of echo is this where they recorded at a church?
7. this whole album feels cold like the winter you can tell its a winter album.
8. i can hear voyager by daft punk in this song.
9. static at first then vocals that are clearly looped an this repeats.
10. this song sounds like an air fight song no wonder its called birds.
11. its the return of the old synth? still the vocals have not much relation to the first CC.
12. i like the keyboard the vocals are filtered and sounds like the voice from portal the game.
13. i heard this bedfore somewhere idk where but when i hear this it reminds me of something.
14. chaotic vocals are butchered very badly. whoa i hear an angry decepticon.
15. the beat is awesome cleaner than the original but with better vocals from the cure's smith.
16. ah my ears are being killed. the song is too chaotic sounds like a person getting captured.
17. sounds evil, cute and evil, cuevil? idk but this song is different.
18. nice guitar add sounds a bit like the old album maybe it was recorded in those sessions.

there are a hell lot of remixes for this album but anyway this album as a whole shows how much crystal castles have grown from the first album and one thing is that they outgrew the very very heavy "gameboy" synth and added other sounds to the beats from this "gameboy" synth.

hey all you musical nerds buy the albums you wont be let down and if you have the albums buy shirts they want you to suport them plus those shirts do look preety cool :D do it you know you wanna. also if you want donate money to me please i only accept $100 dollar bills so please dont bee stingy give me the DINERO.