Sunday, July 19, 2009
No. 20: Crystal Castles
The Crystal Castles are a electronic duo from Toronto, Ontario. That's right, I know if I wanted you to read on I should have probably stayed away from a topic as thrilling as button pushers from the Canada. Okay so let's start over, the Crystal Castles make some interesting noise. Think back to when you were a kid, high on Mountain Dew and Cheeto's Dust, staying up all night just so you could play the latest NES release, the mix of the sugar, adrenaline, the 8 bit soundtrack, and your mother screaming from upstairs for you to go to bed. That sums up the Crystal Castles pretty well. Think that may be a bit of a stretch, check out "Alice Practice" and "XXZXCUZX Me" from the band's self-titled debut album.
Sounds like a good time, right? Surprisingly multi-instrumentalist Ethan Kath and vocalist Alice Glass pull it all off rather well. So much so that Adam Kosecki, a frequent Claptrapped contributor, listed their song "Crimewave" as one of the top 3 songs of 2008. The sound works, but I am skeptical on how it will transfer live. However, with the band playing from 5-6pm on Friday against only Fleet Foxes and Asher Roth, I might have to check it out for myself.
Crystal Castles on MySpace
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And as I side note I hope Chicago can be more hospitable to the Crystal Castles than we were to our last Canadian visitors, the Canucks and Flames, while embarrassing them in the NHL Playoffs. I mean who knows Canada could boycott our fair city with any more treatment like that.
ReplyDeleteThe Castles have headlined many big venues in Chicago, this won't be their first time in the city.
ReplyDelete"Only Fleet Foxes"?????
ReplyDeleteYeah, Not a fan of the FF I'd check them out if I wasn't so intrigued by the Crystal Castles and if they don't grab me at first I'd probably wander over to see the Foxes.
ReplyDeleteThat guy looks like he smells really, really bad..
ReplyDeleteThe chick is hot, though.