Crystal Castles – ST (2008)

This is a great bitcore album, it sounds just like the music that I longed for throughout my long dark twenties back in the twentieth century. But alas, the NintenGod didn’t deem it suitable to release this beautiful album until I was almost 38 years old.

Thanks to the great tv-series Skins, I got a minor musical orgasm when they played Alice Practice – the second track from this album, on the show.

The songs are cyber/urban and somewhat Japanese in their own way. The vocals are glitchy and cut up, often beyond comprehension and the minimal lyrics deal with darkness, drugs and nightmares.

It’s a great ride. Go give it a try.

Bonus information: One of the ambitions of the band, was to open for Melt-Banana.

And now this post turns dark. I hadn’t really read much about the band before, but I did some research yesterday… and I guess I could be the last person who likes music to discover that Ethan Kath – the producer of the band has been really badly controlling and abusing the singer Alice Glass, who only was 15 years old when they met. He was 26 (sic).

And this leaves me with a feeling of extreme ambivalence. The dilemma of whether I can enjoy the art of a abuser and his victim? The music is fantastic. So is this music of Burzum, Michael Jackson and The Red Hot Chilli Peppers. And these days of streaming leaves a small amount of my money in the pockets of people whom I’d never give as much as the time of day due to them being fucking scum. Back in the olden days you bought the record/cd/tape and then your paying the artist was done. And yes I know that this also has several morally questionable aspects. I don’t know what to conclude from this. The fact is that this record is fantastic but made by a predator and his very much underage victim. I’m not going to put any link up for this, but instead link to Alice Glass’ latest release the single Remains.