"Fainting Spells"
The album starts up with some super heavy vocal distortion and, in classic CC fashion, thumps you with some 8-bit beat. This song has its moments but the relief doesn’t come till the last 30 seconds when the listener has some time to recoup and collect their ear drums from the ground."Celestica"
Celestica is the first single off this album and is comprised of a droning baseline and soft vocals, which makes for a very sublime song. CC does a good job building up the climax of this one for you dancing fools."Doe Deer"
This song leaked a few weeks ago and has been the black sheep of this new release. The song is harsh and violent, but it’s a very short song, so I guess its tolerable. Im surprised they are trying to push this one as an E.P. because it doesn’t have that catchy flare."Baptism"
Duh… amazing. We all knew that this one was gonna rock the house. The album version kick ass and definitely lived up to the hype."Years of Silence"
This song has a nice crashing noise that occupies my brain and smashes my woofer, not sure but I think someone other than Alice is on vocals for this one."Empathy"
Turn this sound up at a party that has been going on and people are dancing and things will get nasty! haha It’s very smooth, cool beat fusing hip hop, electronic and classic CC (Crystal Castles) vocals sound. One of my favorite song on the Album and just like most songs on this album wait till the end where the best part is."Suffocation"
Driving down the highway, stereo up and windows down, play this song. Sounds like it could be off the 1st EP, airy synths and a driving beat, however it has a lot more mature sound. Love how the music builds up till it is literally “suffocating” you and then an extremely relieving drop."Violent Dreams"
Dreamy lyrics with annoying off beat synths, frustrating and forgettable sound and song."Vietnam"
This is a pump up song, fist bumpin beat, pushing the song forward. The addition of the bells and twinkles sends your mind on a journey through the longest song on the CD."Birds"
Fusion fusion fusion! Here it is heavy metal added to the mix, giving a very raw badass feel to the song. Feel like walking through a city and causing max destruction.“Pap smear”
The essence of this song is in its lyrics. “Tell me she's alright, tell me she's OK”. Melodically it is a slow moving song except for the bridge, it’s a very ethereal song with celestial effects added to alices’ vocals. Ethan does a well to match the overtone by including drawn out synth created chords and a jumpy back beat.“Not in Love”
I found this song to induce, in some places, a sort of breakfast club essence mixed with Nightmare on Elm Street/Anstey synth line. These tones just made me want to sway back and forth apathetically hoping for love in all the wrong places. ~Sigh~. The wall of sound at the end brings the song to an excellent end.“Intimate”
Ah, here we go! Classic Crystal Castles. This sound is what made them so appealing from the start. Although Alice isn’t in it, I can feel that she was in the studio turning knobs and pressing buttons right alongside Ethan. It is not pretentious or overwhelming (except for the barrage of audio about 2/3’s of the way through. Live, this song is tour de force!“I am Made of Chalk”
This is the last song for a reason. Looking at the cover in coordination with this song, strikes a powerful chord. Distortions of words sounding like some alien being yelling “mom!”/ “mommy!” fucking rock you to the core and really complete the haunting synths and immature melodic tones.
Ultimately this CD is amazing. We here at the Street Index loved every song from the first time we sampled on Crystal Castles (II), sophomore follow up. Although they kept us waiting, Crystal Castles has matured from the last CD enormously. We are hooked, more please. Cop the digital album here.
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