Crystal Castles is a Toronto-based band, consisting of multi-instrumentalist Ethan Kath and vocalist Alice Glass.[8] Crystal Castles are known not only for their own efforts as a band, but also for commissioned remixes for number of groups, including "Hunting for Witches" by Bloc Party, and "Atlantis to Interzone" by friends, Klaxons.[9]
Crystal Castles' music is easily recognized by their heavy use of samples and distorted female vocals. Crystal Castles claims to use a modified keyboard that uses an Atari 5200 sound chip [8] as an oscillator. Their musical style has been described as having "ferocious, asphyxiating sheets of warped two-dimensional Gameboy glitches and bruising drum bombast pierce [the] skull with sheer shrill force, burrowing deep into the brain like a fever".[33] Indie music review website, Pitchfork, gave a positive review of Crystal Castles' remix of "Leni" by GoodBooks, and described the style as "pitch-shifted vocal snippets [that] ricochet like pinballs around Crystal Castles' patented 8-bit synths".[34]
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Moonlight Shadow
useLess United States. July 25 2008 16:00. Posts 4781
Since this is my first installment, a quick introductory post on what this is:
id figure id start a little segment, similar to what others have been doing on other topics. mine revolves around a song that i find myself listening to a lot one particular day, week, or whenever. i may not necessarily post every hour, or every day for that matter, but if im listening to a song a lot for some amount of time, ill youtube it here and include a brief description.
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JohnColtrane July 25 2008 19:06. Posts 1714
