Nov 26 2008
Crystal Castles
One of my favorite electro duos for over a year now is none other than CRYSTAL CASTLES! These two hail from Toronto, Canada, Ethan Kath who is a vocalist and plays several instruments (synths and whatever else he has created!) and also vocalist Alice Glass.
Their name comes from the cartoon She-Ra if you hadn’t notice. And if you also heard of these guys, a lot of their songs sound like synth pop type video games like the atari, there is also a game for the old atairi called Crystal Castles.
They released copious amounts of songs on their myspace page first starting out. Good ol’ myspace! 
They released their first album with 16 tracks and it is self -titled. It was released in early 2008. During this time they played in the Nine Inch Nails “Lights in Sky Over” tour. They were also on tour with several music festivals like Leeds and Reading.
Crystal Castles are really intriguing to me because of the oringiality in the songs that sound like the old atari, new wave and electro. They are something different all right, with a punk edge thrown in there.
They have remixed some amazing songs, such as “Hunting for Witched” by Bloc Party, “Atlantis to Interzone” by Klaxons and of course the song that got me hooked “Leni” by the Goodbooks. My suggested tracks for these electro starlets are “Vanished”, “Knights”, and “Courtship Dating.” You will either want to dance or just be amused. 
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