sweet sounds from crystal castles
i came across these guys tonight watching a broadcast of the 2008 glastonbury festival when from behind my laptop screen something caught my attention, mostly it was what i heard – something very unusual but really intriguing. the screen showed a skinny girl who for a moment i thought was lilly allan but it turned out to be someone much more talented (no offense ms. allan). the performance was absolutely fantastic and i quickly went to amazon to download their mp3 album. i’m already a fan.
unfortunately i cant find a video of their performance at the festival, but there are others. anyway check them out, the song i particularly enjoyed is alice practice.
check them out on their myspace page too where you can check out more tunesness.
after listening to their album a bit i have found myself as intrigued as i am maybe a little annoyed too though. the sounds are fresh, they’re sweat, but the percussions are weak and the vocals tucked behind vaguelly familiar video game beeps and bloops can get a little tiresome. so it remains to be seen whether crystal castle is a one trick pony.
i hope that these young, talented musicians don’t end up as a flash in the pan. they have potential, but perhaps they need to grow up a little? they are perfectly lined up for the disappearing act we see all too often from talented musicians who are forced to create. that goes wrong all too often.
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The last track on the album”Tell Me What To Swallow” proves that they aren’t a 1 trick pony. The songs have been popular since 2006, the album simply collects their early vinyl singles onto a CD for the first time for people without record players. Some Glastonbery footage is on Youtube:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=MZGzT4aslTo
Hey Jarv, wow that’s an amazing video! What a show. I’ve been listening more and more to them and the more I listen the more I fall in love and hear some amazing innovation, and dare I say brilliant?