Crystal Castles – review

Brixton Academy, LondonBeneath a backdrop image of a Yemeni woman in a burqa nursing her pepper-sprayed son at a protest, Alice Glass stops walking on the mosh pit and snarls at us to be a bit more tame, or else the show might end. To help calm the chaos, she lights candles at the on-stage shrine to a friend who died yesterday, and declares, "There's no hell, there's no heaven, there's nothing." Cue another slab of scalp-throbbing riot rave.It's an effective way of reasserting Crystal Castles' n...

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