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Toronto, Canada (2003 – present)

Crystal Castles is a Toronto based duo consisting of multi-instrumentalist Ethan Kath and vocalist Alice Glass. Named after the Crystal Castle from the She-Ra franchise, they formed in December 2003 as a project started by Kath. In April 2005, Glass recorded vocals for five original instrumentals by Kath. The band’s first single was recorded “accidentally”: a microphone test by Glass was released through MySpace as “Alice Practice” in September 2005. Glass was not aware that it had been used until record companies heard the song and contacted the duo to offer them record deals.

On March 18’th, 2008, Crystal Castles released a 16-track, self-titled debut LP. During the summer of 2008, they toured in support of Nine Inch Nails Lights in the Sky Over North America tour.

Crystal Castles are known not only for their own efforts as a band, but also for commissioned remixes for number of groups, including “

Hunting For Witches” by Bloc Party, and “

Atlantis to Interzone” by friends and label mates, Klaxons.

1	Alice Practice full track	5,682
2	Untrust Us full track	5,428
3	Air War full track	5,013
4	Magic Spells full track	4,373
5	Vanished full track	4,304
6	Knights full track	3,638
7	Courtship Dating full track	3,371
8	Good Time full track	3,354
9	Love and Caring full track	3,337
10	1991 full track	3,301
11	Tell Me What To Swallow full track	3,113
12	xxzxcuzx me full track	2,957
13	Crimewave (Crystal Castles VS Health) full track	2,921
14	Black Panther full track	2,911
15	Through The Hosiery full track	2,742

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dollsneerpiece wrote:
5 hours ago

i'm interested in why people are uploading MY photos of the band without giving me the proper credit, i can tell you that much. ifeelinfinite.net

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SemblanceKJ wrote:
5 hours ago

I believe the hands up Alice pic just got deleted lolz.

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GoldnGardnGnome wrote:
11 hours ago

nice pic

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he-war wrote:
yesterday morning

SHE FELL OUT!!!!

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crissyw wrote:
yesterday evening

hell yeaaa

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FootToFace wrote:
yesterday evening

don't do drugs guys

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streto wrote:
yesterday evening

Well obviously he does have a scar. I just don't think that she cut him to "see if he was real."

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Knifymoloko wrote:
yesterday morning

Oh yeah and for their remixes I tag them with < song name> (Crystal Castles vs <artist>) I don't use the [ ]

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Knifymoloko wrote:
yesterday morning

Atlantis to Interzone kicks the ass.

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YouthViolence wrote:
yesterday morning

Courtship Dating was being performed at shows and bootlegged on the internet and youtube since 2006. Ayo Technology was released a year later, late 2007.

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YouthViolence wrote:
yesterday morning

"Alice cut me" is not a lie. He had a scab on his face for weeks: http://flickr.com/photos/dollsneerpiece/2612709240/

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streto wrote:
Friday evening

The "ALICE CUT ME LOL" thing is a total lie.

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qcardy wrote:
Friday evening

I don't get how Timbaland and Fitty would sample Courtship Dating unless they posted this song on MySpace or on an EP I'm not aware of. Ayo Technology came out early last year, so I'm stumped. CC sure likes to call them on it though. ironic.

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Knifymoloko wrote:
Friday afternoon

"Alice cut me because she wanted to see if I was real. I'm scared for life" Wtf? And did 50 Cent really sample Courtship Dating?

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autofellator wrote:
Friday afternoon

omg best band ever!!!!! they didn't rip off chiptune artists coz chiptun sucks anyway!!!!!! :P :P :P

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joel114 wrote:
Friday afternoon

I don't know if they are jealous, Youthviolence, maybe just more interested in some principles than in music... Actually I don't know if Lo-bat for example made a big mess about it. I would be curious about that. Anyway, even if they didn't follow legal rules, their stuff is quite original. I'm looking forward to see them live a second time in one month!

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YouthViolence wrote:
Friday morning

The Spin feature showed me that they are sweet and caring people. The Pitchfork feature showed us that the controversial 8-bit samples were used in unreleased songs made years before the myspace page was made with their original non-sample songs. People starting shit are just jealous.

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borneobob wrote:
Friday morning

well said streto

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Shru wrote:
Friday morning

I should probably be pissed off at Sonic Youth being #1 too.

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Shru wrote:
Friday morning

http://www.last.fm/tag/noise/artists Crystal Castles is more noise than prurient is.

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