Artist
Crystal Castles
Crystal Castles is an electronic artist from Toronto, Canada formed in 2003. 13 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Electronic · Toronto, Canada · Best electronic albums
- 13
- Releases
- 2008–2016
- Active years
- 2003
- Formed
Artist
Crystal Castles is an electronic artist from Toronto, Canada formed in 2003. 13 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Electronic · Toronto, Canada · Best electronic albums
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Crystal Castles
2008
Crystal Castles are an experimental, electronic band formed in 2004 in Toronto, Ontario consisting of producer Ethan Kath and lyricist and vocalist Alice Glass. Crystal Castles are known for their chaotic live shows and their lo-fi melancholic homemade productions. The duo released many limited vinyl EPs between 2006 and 2007, and two eponymous albums in 2008 and 2010 to widespread critical acclaim. Their debut album was included in NME's "Top 100 Greatest Albums of the Decade" list at #39. Ethan Kath met Alice Glass in Toronto when she was 15. He thought he had found an "undiscovered poet" after hearing her sing in her punk band Fetus Fatale. Kath asked her to record vocals over tracks he had been working on since 2003. After writing lyrics for 5 tracks, she went to a studio to record them, where an engineer secretly recorded her soundcheck. Kath discovered the secret soundcheck recording, named it "Alice Practice," and uploaded it online under the band name Crystal Castles, a lyric from a song in the cartoon She-Ra which featured the lyric "The fate of the world is safe in Crystal Castles." In 2005 the songs "Magic Spells", "Untrust Us", and "Alice Practice" grew popular online, …
