Crystal Castles: (III) – review

(Fiction)When they released their first album in 2008, this duo's glitch-riven onslaught of noise spliced with melody seemed like music to bend your mind to. Now though – giving strength to that gloomy notion that most bands get more boring as they go on – it sounds more like music to get off your face to; there's very little on this third LP that could qualify as "experimental". Track after track leans heavily on the relentless four-to-the-floor of trance, with Alice Glass's yelped vocals m...

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