Crystal Castles II

Crystal Castles, also known as Crystal Castles II, is the second studio album by Crystal Castles released by Fiction Records on 24 May 2010. The album was initially scheduled for release on the 7th June 2010, but the release dates were moved forward after the album leaked online, thus a digital version of the album was released on the 23rd April 2010. The album was recorded by Ethan Kath in a variety of locations including an abandoned church in Iceland, a self-built cabin in northern Ontario, a garage behind an abandoned drug store in Detroit, as well as Paul "Phones" Epworth's London studio. Of the experience, Kath said "I recorded most of the record in the coldest winter in decades in a church without heat in Iceland. It was so cold that when I listen back I can hear myself shivering. I chose it because it felt right". In December 2009, Kath gave vocalist Alice Glass a CD-R containing 70 instrumental tracks, for which she then recorded vocals on 35 tracks.