Well, i like Crystal Castles. Do you?
I dunno how much they get talked up around here but it turns out that i didn't even realize how much i liked them till i heard the second of the two songs on this video... it's GOOD.
myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=31894359
alice practise is great
the album is dull
i heard
"Tell Me What To Swallow" the other day and loved it... so i'll just have to wait and see/hear.
wrong
album is amazing. can't stop playing it.
If you like them
check out Kap Bambino. I think they sound basically the same, but Kap Bambino are more like the "louder" Crystal Castles songs...
Good call on Kap Bambino,
as for CC; well I'm in two minds about them. I like their noisy stuff but most of the rest of their songs (sorry for the appalling grammar) are decidedly meh...just filler that's not all it's made out to be. Metinks they are a bit overhyped and hipsterish.
crimewave is awesome
i don't know whether i will be listening to them as much in a year's time. they will probably go the way of The Rapture and other zeitgeist (vom) bands.
the original
is soooooooo much better
I really liked them at Reading last year
hope they're there again.
Can't wait...
to see them at The Crawl.
I've had the album 2 weeks now & it is brilliant
and includes Crimewave (and other magnificent tracks) but strangely excludes the best track 'Trash Hologram', except in the download version (??)
but my favourite is 'D' (on myspace) - this was on Thrash^3 -was this a demo of the album?
the original Crimewave is far far better
if it wasn't for CC i would have never heard Health, so for this i am eternally grateful
also i dont mind the slower tracks on the album
nice sleepy tunes
saw them in feb last year
TERRIBLE.
they have got a lot better since
well worth seeing them again. or maybe they're not your thing.
Dont give your money
to hipster twats who dont pay artists for their work.
http://www.pileup.com/babyart/blog/
This is the creator of their Madonna t-shirt, an image they stole and didnt pay for. Its documented on the blog, and has been over the past few months. The dude aint gettin the dough, shits fucked up.
The album is okay, some songs are considerably better than others.
i didn't know this
interesting
Yeah its pretty crappy
but at the end of the day, all he did was steal a picture of madonna and add a black eye...
And all they did
was plot some notes and add an arpeggiator. This is not about talent.
shocking this
fair enough if they were small time and had knocked up a couple of sales in there home town. but i've seent those t-shirts are fucking ubiquitous at the moment.
there manager is obviously a cunt.
But i bet that crystal castles have funded the ts themselves and are taking full profit.
^^waay too much filler on their album
"Teenager music"
Innit?
Teenagers can't always be wrong,
can they?
and don't forget that some music journo has pushed CC on myspace or on various blogs to get them the attention of these teenagers you speak of.
Like fuck do teenagers create their own scenes.
By "teenager music"
I meant directionless, shallow and ultimately regrettable. Just like most teenagers.
they're a fad
and a pretty shit one, to boot.
Yep.
Album is pretty toss, and they are awful live.
Good remixes though.
I liked them until I saw them live
20 minute headline slot does not constitute me being happy. Waste of fucking money...they played longer opening the dance tent at fucking Leeds.
I've avoided them up until yesterday
Listened to the album and have got to say, I'm pretty surprised. Not bad at all. Dunno how i've managed to avoid them til now, but there you go....that's living in a cave for you.