Crystal Castles has two kinds of songs: the ones that
anesthetize your body and bring you to a state of complete calm, and the ones
that go past your ears and overload all your senses with the sheer sound and
feel of chaos; both styles force you to focus only on the music. This may not sound like a good thing;
however, Crystal Castles has pulled it off not once, but three times in a mere
four years. Crystal Castles's III
definitely takes a turn towards the relaxed, but still holds onto the use of
extreme noise as displayed in II (I seems to be a perfect combination of the
two styles). The contrast is interesting;
how Alice Glass whispers you into mental numbness in III, instead of screaming
you awake in II; how III goes down easily, allowing you to let go of your body
and relax completely, while II's gritty sound forces itself into your mind and
takes over. In this new album, the beats
are slower, the vocals are less screeching, the noise is overall less imposing
to the listener's brain, but the impact is the same. Crystal Castles remains a force not to be
listened to lightly.
examples of "smooth" songs:
Transgender (III)
examples of "rough" songs:
Xxzxcuzx Me (I)
Alice Practice (I)
Pale Flesh
(III)
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