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Release Date: Mar 18, 2008; Lead Performance: Crystal Castles; Genre: Electronica
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Like the sweet-but-sick sounds of Ladytron, the Toronto boy-girl duo of
Ethan Kath and Alice Glass create everything from adolescent plastic pop
suitable for Dance Dance Revolution workouts to furious thrashings that
recall a gamer maniacally wrangling a joystick. Such blipping and
beeping stay true to the pair's beginnings as an eight-bit band, but Crystal Castles really pushes all the right buttons when factoring wistful
melodies into its playful computer glitches. On these tracks, like the
transcendent ''Untrust Us,'' Glass' vapor-light vocals glisten through the
white noise. B
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Posted Mar 14, 2008
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