Just doesn't give me the same feelings, it's like they're a different genre. It's like they're a different band. In short, they weren't exactly a band to me, and I didn't listen to them expecting or wanting them to either expirement or grow. I listened to them because of that Atlantis To Interzone remix.

i disliked the new album so much i removed it from my hard drive! i still occasionally listen to the old one.

I think it takes a certain perspective. I love the new album all the way from the songs to the album cover (which fits the music perfectly, in my opinion). I might be in the minority...especially since everyone cringed when I put the album on with my friends, but I think its a great freaking album. I always end up liking the albums everyone seems to hate.

Celestica is a great song, a hint of trippyness to it, courtship dating and alice practice wer good too but i didnt delve any deeper than them.

This is fair. I can appreciate that if you were looking for the same thing over again, then (II) won't have impressed you. But I don't think there's ever been a band that's done that. Apart from perhaps Coldplay.

Treated as an album completely removed from their first it's an excellent electronic album. It has more trippy vocals than mental but Alice Glass still manages to keep it crazy unique.

I just listened to I and II back to back today and I have to say, I like II better. They have more of a unique voice in that album. I can't wait to hear what else they can do.

I have II on repeat, it's EARGASMIC!!!! I think they've outdone themselves, I'm so impressed. I think they've matured as a group personally.

"Courtship Dating" is by far the best song they've ever recorded....
I have mixed feelings about both albums. Some songs are so good they make me wet myself but it bleeds together and gets very, very boring at parts. Neither album is solid.....

i'd agree that both albums are mediocre. they don't do pacing well. but they use great samples/effects.

If I looked at the albums as a collection of songs lacking cohesion, I'd still be lukewarm.....6.5/10.

I think what people need to remember is that they are very experimental. Being experimental means you are going to come up with good and bad material regardless of how talented you are. I love the risks Crystal Castles take...I don't know many electronic bands off the top of my head that are as willing to go as far as them (which is sad since electronic music can be anything).

The real kicker is whether or not an experimental band can come up with more good than bad. I think Crystal Castles has nothing to worry about there...I will take the bad as long as their good stuff is this freaking good.

i don't temper my musical expectations based on supposed genres.

What does that even mean? Was that a response to me saying they are experimental? Being experimental isn't a genre. I feel like if anything should temper one's idea of what to expect it would be that. Besides, I didn't even mean temper...I meant there will just be good and bad. Skip the bad songs. If you don't like even the good stuff, well, you are missing out but that is still your opinion.

You're right, its better to experiment then follow the same song pattern over and over again.......cough PASSION PIT cough.........

I'll never understand this. crystal castles was introduced to me in the same genre as the remix of them I just posted above by LA RIOTS. It's club music for god sakes. Nobody sees the Bloody Beetroots getting recognition from the hipster community, but because crystal castles was a little more creative with it suddenly they have some sort of artistic recognition.

Look at them:
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a25.../EthanKath.jpghttp://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a25...Aliceglass.jpg

It's a DJ and some punker. She's barely even part of the band, he probably just takes her voice and changes it with FL or Reason, just like all of the other DJ's you can find underground on youtube, advertising their remixes or on soundcloud or rub a dub dub.

You know why I think their new album is crap? It's a freaky sounding pop album and I can't dance to it at all. Also it's clearly marketed toward hipsters... I saw it coming too. No way any self-respecting drug addict would pass up an opportunity to make bank of idiots.

Look at the site where their video is posted! It's advertising the new MGMT album! HAhahahaha, idiots. Enjoy your pop:

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It gets a little old that once hipsters accept some new band only hipsters can listen to it. Anyone else that listens to it obviously doesn't know **** about music. I'm sure I like quite a few bands that hipsters like. Uh oh.

Crystal Castles isn't an EDM band...why would you listen to them to dance?

Whut?

MGMTs new album is excellent - it just took me 6 months to realise it.

Nothing wrong with a good bit of electropop anyway :)

I don't get the hate for MGMT either. They're major label sell-outs, so what. They're the coolest rockstars (and by rockstars, I mean top 10 songs and albums) of our generation and they make some damn good music. IDGAF if they're corporate.

I actually like their first album, but the second album disappointed me for some reason- I forget why it's been so long. Also, I like a lot of hipster music: NMH, animal collective, MGMT, etc. I think for some reason crystal castles being in the same genre as those bands doesn't rub me right at all, at some levels it makes me angry. I was excited to hear their new album, but I was really expecting them to just improve and become a better EDM band. So I guess when I saw their new album had singles, and MV's that to me looked aimed at a crowd, and sounds which were more pop-like-- I was just like "how could the fans of the band I was listening to ever like this?"

I'm not saying I can't enjoy a good electronic pop album, there's a lot of pop music I like. Margo Guryan for instance, but it's hard for me to appreciate the transition- I want dance tunes. Also, anyone who says they never were even a bit EDM isn't considering all the shows they played at raves like H.A.R.D Hunted House alongside the best up and coming DJ's, or the fact that their real second album was called "Remixed and Rewired."

dood the new mgmt kicks ass.

+2

So like, anyone feel like telling me what Sigur Rós songs they sample?

Thoughts please (Crystal Castles)
 

Hi guys, iv recently downloaded the Album named Crystal Castles by CC, thinks its number two or rather their 2nd of 2 albums thus far, think theyre a Canadian Duo,

i find after listening to it a few times, strangley addictive,

i only came across them by a google search as i was searching for inspiration for my mp3 plyer,

are there any CC fans in here?,

i particularly like Celestica track

wow,

so much interest in them,


my mates aint even heard of them when i mention them ha!

good to see :band:

CC are great. i still prefer their first album to their second, but it's cool that they went in kind of a rave direction with overloaded vocals and 8-bit sounds.

NOT ENOUGH LUV

This is one of the few electronic bands I like, get with it people. Though I still need to get their second album.

My favorites:

They kill it
 

Alice literaly rapes the crowd with her voice at concerts, I just went to one of their shows and they were amaaaziiing, their albums are fantastic too.

I am a fan of what they're doing, but not so much the fact they've been using samples that they shouldn't have been. A lot of this has been going on with 8bit music. Timberland for example!

Crystal Castles sample Timberland?

No, Timberland has been nicking old 8bit music without crediting it.

Oh. Gotcha

Can't post URLS but You Tube

Producer Timbaland rips song from finnish musician?

(and I'll learn to spell his name correctly)

Sorry, I've put this a tad off topic...

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Whats your favorite album? Mines III. Even tho there are less "classics" I think the production on it is on another level than the other ones. Also I think plauge, affection and wrath of god so super hard but I was rollin when I listened so I might be biased.

While I do agree the production is "cleaner", it diminishes their trademark sound for more straightforward songs, and it ultimately lacks because of.

Oh dear. I wasn't into their last album anyway. Alice will probably be better off solo. As a side note, Twitter is such a lame place to make that announcement??

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<3 Crystle Castles... Love their old songs.

I used to be very fond of them. I own the first 2 albums and I heard a bit of the 3rd from a friend but never thought I'd get into it. Nowadays I usually skip them if I'm in shuffle mode, however Magic Spells is one of my favourite songs of all artists.