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Crystal Castles - iii

Review by Sean Adams

If Crystal Castles' iii was a pizza it would be disgusting to look at, it would never really cool down and it would probably give you indigestion, but it would taste absolutely delicious.»

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'iii' is the first of crystal castles full-lengths to be produced entirely by ethan kath. by ditching their old synthesizers and keyboards used on i and ii, ethan enforced a 'strictly no computers' rule in the studio and began recording everything directly to tape. together the canadian duo has conjured up a collection of songs that are as raw as they are well rounded. as 'iii' unfolds, each track will take you to greater heights and equal lows, as you enter the sometimes plagued, and often polarized world that is crystal castles. recorded mostly in warsaw and berlin, the album boasts the haunting and euphoric 5-minute mind-bender 'plague', that quickly caused a cyber-storm amongst fans and media when the band unveiled it via their soundcloud page this summer.
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