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Crystal Castles' 2008 debut is a scorching blast of lo-fi electro-noise beamed in from a rave at the end of the world.
Toronto's Crystal Castles turned circuit-bent video game chips into one of the most exciting debuts of the 2000s. and "Crimewave," "Courtship Dating" and "Alice Practice" still sound like nothing else.
Toronto's Crystal Castles made some of the most exciting 21st-century electronic music on the planet, and it all started here.
The band's self-titled 2008 debut introduced the world at large to the lo-fi electro-scuzz they had been circulating on underground vinyl singles for a couple of years prior, and it's still a bracing listen: a rush of warped videogame blips and bloops, crusty death-disco beats and grating ambient noise crowned by heavily processed, screeching vocals. Music this mercurial was never meant to sit still, but every Crystal Castles record sounds like it was beamed in from a rave at the end of the world, and this is the one that started the party.
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Side A
1. Untrust Us
2. Alice Practice
3. Crimewave
4. Magic Spells
Side B
1. XXZXCUZX Me
2. Air War
3. Courtship Dating
4. Good Time
Side C
1. 1991
2. Vanished
3. Knights
4. Love and Caring
Side D
1. Through the Hosiery
2. Reckless
3. Black Panther
4. Tell Me What to Swallow
5. Air War (David Wolf remix)
On Last Gang, first out in 2008.
Info from Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
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