Daily MPfree: Crystal Castles
John Rogers | Tuesday 8 June, 2010 12:11
Grouchy electrogoth kids Crystal Castles‘ first record felt more like a bundle of songs than a coherent album per se. The follow up (nattily entitled Crystal Castles II and hastily released to try and avoid repeating the internet-wide piracy that must have stunted sales of their debut) is similar in structure – slick electronica not so much segues as crashes into filthy electropunk interludes, with all kinds of ravey nonsense and creepy pitch-shifted ambient sections inbetween. Sonic Youth‘s Thurston Moore has added some guitar squiggles to this remix of the album’s first single Celestica, out now.
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