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Crystal Castles (Band) (Music)
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Crystal Castles was a Canadian electronica band formed in 2006, known for their dark, melancholic aesthetic and a unique sound that started out as a mix of electropunk and synthpop before transitioning into futuristic industrial territory that would become most synonymous with the genre of witch house.Started by singer Alice Glassnote real name: Margaret Osborn and songwriter/producer Ethan Kathnote real name: Claudio Paolo Palmieri, Crystal Castles began gaining traction off the success of their song "Alice Practice" both through MySpace and a sizable Colbert Bump following them performing the song in an episode of Skins.note While the details are spotty, the general origin story often shared alongside the song is that it was a soundcheck/proof of concept that was never meant to be released, in some versions recorded in secret by their engineer. However, Alice publicly denied this following her departure from the band, claiming that Ethan had deliberately fabricated the story to minimize her input. From there, they grew a reputation for their extremely chaotic live shows, the consistent divisive responses to their work, and the enduring passion of their fanbase. Their influences around this time included murder, blank looks on girls, and knives.On October 8, 2014, Alice announced her departure from Crystal Castles, later embarking on a solo career the following year. Language exchanged between her and Ethan afterwards in public statements implied a less-than-amicable split. While Alice stated that her exit would mark the end of the band, Ethan released a new song under the Crystal Castles name on April 16, 2015 titled "Frail" with vocals done by a new singer named Edith Frances, who would then become Alice's replacement. This pairing would release a new album, Amnesty (I), in August 2016; although they announced they were working on an Amnesty (II) nine months later, the band has not released any music since.In October 2017, Alice published a statement in which she accused Ethan of sexual, emotional, physical and mental abuse dating back to when she first began recording with him at the age of 15. Ethan publicly denied the allegations and sued her for defamation, but the suit was dismissed in 2018. The band cancelled remaining tour dates that were planned at the time, and no further updates on the band have been provided.Other public disputes the band found themselves in occurred in 2008, when they were accused of violating Creative Commons licenses by stealing artwork and samples from other artists, specifically a drum sample by Lo-Bat which featured on Insectica and the usage of a black-eyed Madonna◊ as an album cover. These issues were seemingly resolved when they retitled Insectica to 'Crystal Castles vs Lo-Bat', and it soon became apparent that the artist who created the Madonna image was prolonging hostilities as he was benefiting from the exposure — Crystal Castles tried to pay him for the image but he refused to provide them with the necessary details.They are unrelated to the Atari Arcade Game. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: II and III zig-zag this; their heaviest moments are definitely more aggressive than their preceding albums, but they also have their fair share of Lighter and Softer moments. | |
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Angrish: Sometimes it's distortion, but the lyrics can dissolve into this occasionally. Definitely happens live, though. | |
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New Sound Album | |
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New Sound Album: Amnesty (I) shifts more towards a conventional dance sound, at times sounding EDM-esque. | |
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Companion Cube | |
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Companion Cube: Alice and the amp are legally married in some states. Sometimes she kneels down and humps the mic instead. | |
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Non-Indicative Name: One of their most beautiful and laidback songs is called "Child I Will Hurt You". | |
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Nightmare Fetishist | |
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Nightmare Fetishist: CC's lyrics constantly reference sexually transmitted diseases, abortions, injury, mutilation, and corruption of innocence. They said in an interview before that they wanted to make an album that would "simultaneously make everyone vomit at once" but they seriously take it up to eleven. | |
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Gratuitous Foreign Language | |
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Gratuitous Foreign Language: "Untrust Us" has a repeated sampled line in Spanish, "La cocaÃna no es buena para su salud", meaning "Cocaine is not good for your health". "Year of Silence" heavily samples a song by the Icelandic band Sigur Rós. | |
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Mad Artist | |
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Mad Artist: What happens when you hand Linda Blair a drum machine. | |
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Spelling Song | |
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Spelling Song: "Mother Knows Best". H-E-R-P-E-S. | |
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Call-and-Response Song | |
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Their bouncy, call-and-response single "Courtship Dating" is about human taxidermy. | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: One interpretation of Violent Youth is that of the song's narrator being powerless to save a child being poisoned by her parents. One song is called "Child I Will Hurt You". | |
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Chronological Album Title | |
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Spiteful Spit | |
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Spiteful Spit: According to Ethan, Alice (back when she sang with the riot grrrl band) used to spit beer at hecklers from the stage. Nowadays, she can sometimes be spotted taking a swig of Jack and then raining it back onto the crowd, though it's done with affection. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: The debut album ends with "Tell Me What to Swallow", an acoustic song from the perspective of the victim in an abusive relationship who chooses to stay. | |
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Sampling | |
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Sampling: "Untrust Us" is built around the opening text-to-speech sample of Death from Above 1979's "Dead Womb", and ends with the first two-and-a-quarter bars of the song as an abrupt Last Note Nightmare. "Year of Silence" is built around the bridge of Sigur Rós' "Inni mer syngur vitleysingur". "Magic Spells" takes elements from the title track of Grandmaster Flash's The Message. | |
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Country Matters | |
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Country Matters: "Mother Knows Best". C, C, C is for Cunt. | |
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Stage Name: Alice's real name is Margaret Osborn, and Ethan's is Claudio Paolo Palmieri. | |
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Religion Rant Song | |
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Religion Rant Song: "Baptism". | |
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Non-Appearing Title: Almost all of their songs. | |
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Improbable Weapon User | |
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Improbable Weapon User: One time Alice clobbered a fan with a microphone. The reason is a mystery, but it probably had to do with shows like this. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: The narrator in "Suffocation" seems as if they definitely have been. | |
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The Silent Bob | |
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The Silent Bob: Ethan used to front his own garage rock outfit. Now he looks positively milquetoast next to his frontwoman. (He's actually more talkative than his stage persona would lead you to believe.) | |
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Star-Making Role | |
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Starmaking Role: Their appearance on Skins boosted their publicity a lot. | |
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Film the Hand | |
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Film the Hand: Ethan is routinely photographed wearing hoodies which obscure some or all of his face, and covering it with his hand even further. Alice picked up on this habit, and will now cover her face with her sleeve/collar/beer/whatever's handy, even when posing with fans. | |
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Studio Chatter | |
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Studio Chatter: In the middle of "Love and Caring", you can clearly hear Alice snap, "What the fuck is this? Oh, it's the bass". | |
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I Am the Band | |
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I Am the Band: Alice's star is on the rise. Ethan, not so much. He's had no compunctions about venting his anger over her departure through Twitter. | |
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Free Handed Performer | |
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Free-Handed Performer: Alice Glass performed as the singer while Ethan Kath managed the production. The same formula was applied on stage, even after Alice left and got replaced by Edith Frances. | |
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Careful with That Axe | |
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Careful with That Axe: Alice's feral, nigh-inaudibly distorted screeches in "Doe Deer". | |
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Loudness War | |
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Loudness War: They have a habit of distorting their music (and vocals) to hell and back. | |
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Xtreme Kool Letterz | |
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Xtreme Kool Letterz: "xxzxcuzx me". | |
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Rearrange the Song | |
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Rearrange the Song: "Deicide" is essentially a stripped-down, unfinished version of "Their Kindness Is Charade". | |
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Noodle Implements | |
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Noodle Implements: Ethan remains coy when discussing their sound engineering. He once claimed to smoosh a cake into his soundboard to achieve a desired noise. | |
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Last Note Nightmare | |
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"Untrust Us" is built around the opening text-to-speech sample of Death from Above 1979's "Dead Womb", and ends with the first two-and-a-quarter bars of the song as an abrupt Last Note Nightmare. | |
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One-Woman Wail | |
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One-Woman Wail: "Tell Me What to Swallow". | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Although their name is taken from She-Ra, they've never actually seen an episode. | |
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Self-Titled Album | |
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Self-Titled Album: The first two of their albums, and even then then the third one is just entitled (III). | |
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Perishing Alt-Rock Voice | |
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Perishing Alt-Rock Voice: Alice does this in "Celestica". | |
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Cover Version | |
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Cover Version: Although the studio version of "Crimewave" is technically a remix of the HEALTH song, they often perform it live as one. | |
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Performance Video | |
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Performance Video: A cross between this and Surreal Music Video for "Baptism," their second single. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: Crystal Castles' music in general tend to fit under this. A lot of it sounds fairly upbeat and danceable, but the lyrics on the other hand... but a lot of time it's hard to make out what Alice is even saying anyway due to the delibrate audio distortion. Their bouncy, call-and-response single "Courtship Dating" is about human taxidermy. | |
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Intercourse with You | |
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Intercourse with You: "Through the Hosiery": | |
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Affectionate Nickname | |
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Affectionate Nickname: Alice's version of it, anyway; she once noted that she addressed her bandmate as Ethan Catheter, because he's "the most uncomfortable thing in the world". | |
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Drugs Are Bad | |
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"Untrust Us" has a repeated sampled line in Spanish, "La cocaÃna no es buena para su salud", meaning "Cocaine is not good for your health". | |
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Word Salad Lyrics | |
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Word Salad Lyrics: Their first hit in Britain, "Alice Practice", was Ethan recording Glass uttering nonsense into a microphone over a drum loop. "Air War", which samples Ulysses by James Joyce. | |
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Surprisingly Gentle Song | |
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Surprisingly Gentle Song: "Tell Me What to Swallow" is the calmest song on the debut album, but also the saddest. "Violent Dreams" is by far the softest song on (II), running on lush synth washes and forlorn, distorted vocals. "Child I Will Hurt You", the final track on III, is a full-on ambient piece. | |
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Textless Album Cover | |
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Textless Album Cover: All 4 of their albums. | |
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Single Stanza Song | |
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Single Stanza Song: A number of their songs are based around the repetition of a single set of lyrics. In "Doe Deer", Alice just screeches "Deathray!" over and over. | |
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