Crystal Castles and Wedding Songs

This brings us to this. Ethan Kath is not at home is not the first time a member of Crystal Castles is an interview: a 2008 Time magazine in Toronto feature was written especially around the absence of Alice. I think that waiting in the exchange with Wedding Songs  the article and go over my questions while I needed 10 minutes before re-dialing the local exchange, re-enter the PIN, and enter the 13-digitphone number that you I have a phone anywhere in Tokyo.

"Hey, Ethan," said a voice, one that brings bad news, delivered in tones on stilts.

The bit you probably already know: Ethan tells me that Alice has a broken ankle. The bit that we published as a news - rightly, I might add - that cast Crystal Castles "line appearances on  New Country Songs the Big Day Out 2011 tour in doubt means:.

How was your day in Tokyo?

A little "stressful.

Why?

Since Alice is  Wedding Songs injured.

What has happened?

We are in the hospital after taking X-rays. It seems that she has a broken ankle.

Oh shit. What does it mean for Wedding Songs the Australian tour?

I do not know. Maybe I'm in a wheelchair. I'm not sure.

So what happens at the show  Country Songs last night?

No, it happened.

So to clarify, this is not affecting the Australian tour?

I do not know. This is such a thing as a bad time to ask the time.

Crystal Castles and Country Songs

When the "New rave" has brought our

attention to Crystal Castles have long survived. Masters of what has become known as 8-bit chiptune or build Crystal Castles brilliant recordings of sounds that you might find on the back of a game console. To date, almost 8 million of Crystal Castles saw five different videos on YouTube, this is a band, so the time, were often in the soundtrack as the skin New Country Songs squeaky mattress. Are you this brother and sister chemical generation.

In any case, there is nothing even a little 'grumpy or closed on the 28-year-old in a black sweater with hood and tight jeans that I meet in the banana-yellow office of a capacity of 1,000 nightclub in a suburb of unattractive Milan. He apologizes for the odd-length hair (apparently they cut Castles screamer Alice Glass, when he was not looking). He tells me about the animals and the lack of windows in his grandfather's farm in Calabria (southern "toe" in the Italian "boot"). He tells me about the band's old van (a vehicle decommissioned attack command with "cock-proof" tires) and how to get rid of Country Songs its original drummer, when the panel beater ruinous penchant for  New Country Songs cocaine in a big show in Tokyo derailed. He tells me how many links are illegal downloads of his new album is on Twitter. He tells me how all of these links lead to a version of the album is that the incorrect treatment of  Wedding Songs  the individual future, Celestica belong. Has much to say for themselves, something interesting, and each story is the same engaging, chatty enthusiasm delivered. When he offered to nip off the glass and hunting - it is New Country Songs  a shower, right after he woke up at 06:30 - then I think to myself, what a pleasure it is to meet him.

Sun glass appears, may even wet hair, bright smile, no more Country Songs fascinating, and sit for the interview. But then something funny way.Ethan Kath slips into character and becomes "Ethan Kath of Crystal Castles', someone who is, oh, quite capable, a surly, reserved, passive-aggressive ass.

Lodo easy to start. Tell me about The Brain, say, on the basis of flight cases measure full of wounded, half-dead old keyboards and telephones, and apparently a lot of Country Songs noise and vocal samples played by the band on stage.


Crystal Castles debut album cover.
"There's nothing like that," responds with a face for four years he has just refused a lollipop. And we went! "Maybe the team to call it," he says, "but I do not know. I'm not emotionally attached to each course."

So if it was all burned not interest you?

Crystal Catles New Country Songs

Edgar Smith tries to insert a  New Country Songs word when talking Ethan Fawn and Alice Glass Action Comics, get obscure noise bands and videogames

Crystal Castles, 'The Yellow Brick Road brings you here? Really? '(© Paul Martin)
James Murphy said in early 2007. "In my  experience, people are not looking for Wedding Songs  progress are really trying to move things forward, trying, as a thinker to be perceived It's vanity, rather than altruistic motives for the Arts' Time. out listened and agreed. thanks
widespread paranoia-old pop that has exhausted its potential, are the bands that capture the mass Ritalin-grade focus in the second half of  New Country Songs this decade, those who come with different sounds. But in order to reduce music to a quest for novelty we have an abundance of groups is not easy in New Country Songs retrospect to 1980 for some sound or to create combinations of different genres
(Ie, indie and electronic).

Crystal Castles - Vanished

Crystal Castles: interview

James Murphy said in early 2007: ‘In my experience, people looking for progress aren’t actually looking to move things forward, they’re looking to be perceived as a forward thinker. It’s about vanity rather than any altruistic motives for the art.’ Time Out listened and agreed. Thanks to
a widespread paranoia that alt-pop has exhausted its potential, bands that capture the mass Ritalin-grade attention in the second half of this decade are the ones who have come up with different sounds. But reducing music-making to a hunt for newness has given us a mass of groups either looking blankly back at the 1980s for some pre-fetishised synth sound or making facile combinations of different genres
(ie indie and electronica).Crystal Castles use entirely unique sounds thanks, as Ethan Fawn (the beat-making half of the band) explains, to ‘this circuit-bent Atari that I bent in a 48-hour session in 2003 or 4’. They also cross genres (albeit unintentionally) which has lead to the dubious term ‘techno-metal’ being thrown their way. But they construct good, critic-confounding music, making them the perfect artists to lead by example. Time Out caught up with them, fittingly given their distaste for celebrity, at Dalston’s Nobody Inn. The night before, they played the Purple Turtle (‘Are you making that up? They allowed it to be called the Purple Turtle? There’s more than one Purple Turtle?’), headlining the first night of this year’s Camden Crawl. They shudder at trying to imagine the usual Turtle crowd ‘Oh, like jocks?’ suggests Alice Glass, the lyrical (and sociable) half.
‘Like frat-boy rapists?’ asks Ethan quickly adding that ‘we don’t have any control over where we play, so people shouldn’t associate us with any of that.’ 

Crystal Castles - Baptism

interview with Crystal Castles

Crystal Castles

WE PREDICT A RIOT

“For its grand opening, the store had a different show booked every night for a month. Ours was one of the first few, but our fans went so mental that they started breaking things in the store – a few coffee tables, a CD rack. Then the store cancelled the rest of the shows.

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“I was being interviewed on the BBC live on the phone, and they were like, ‘So we heard you’re third in the series of shows at Rough Trade.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, about that.…’
“I announced on the radio to all the other bands that the shows were cancelled because of us,” Kath laughs with some obvious pride.It could have been worse, though. A Crystal Castles L.A. after-party got so raucous that the police brought in a helicopter to break it up. Seriously. And that was after they played a club gig that had security working overtime.After a long hiatus, Rough Trade brought back in-store appearances, but now it only allows 40 audience members, instead of the 200 inside and 300 outside that Castle-mania unleashed.“I’m not sure why, but for that show the fans felt the need to get onstage to hold onto Alice as if she were Morrissey. One security guard kept ripping them off and throwing them back, but they just kept coming. Finally he called for backup, and there were six security guards onstage with their arms linked, and kids were still trying to get over them. One kid tried to jump over them, got his head cracked open, and as they’re dragging him off the stage to throw him out he started grabbing toward me.”
If you’ve been unaware until now of the bizarre success of this Toronto synth-punk duo, welcome to the Internet era.

Crystal Castles - Crimewave

Crystal Castles

Biography

Crystal Castles is an experimental electronic band which formed in 2003 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and consists of producer Ethan Kath and vocalist Alice Glass. They are named after the lyrics “The fate of the world is safe in Crystal Castles” and “Crystal Castles, the source of all power” both from the theme song for She-Ra’s fortress. They are known for their melancholic lo-fi sound and their explosive live shows. Their debut album was included in NME’s “Top 50 Albums of the Decade”.

Initally the band was a solo project started by Ethan Kath in December 2003. Ethan later discovered Alice Glass singing in a noise-punk band, and thought he had found the “missing ingredient” to his music. In 2004 Ethan gave Alice 60 instrumental tracks and in April 2005 she recorded vocals over five instrumentals. The band’s first single Alice Practice was actually a microphone test by Glass. She was not aware that the recording existed until London UK’s Merok Records asked to release the track on vinyl. The limited release sold out in 3 days.