Pitchfork loves them but tell me what I'm missing. The album is gratuitously avant garde and 8 of the 14 songs are barely fit for listening. There are 3 or 4 songs that hold their own because of their persistent dance rhythms.
Their use of a keyboard modified with an Atari 5200 sound chip is just a gimmick and aside from that distinction, the music is a confusing pastiche of some fairly shop worn musical ideas. There more than a few bands out there doing this sort of thing a lot better than Crystal Castles.
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There are two types of music: the first type is the blues and the second type is all the other stuff.
Townes Van Zandt
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