Crystal Castles: Crystal Castles | CD review

(Fiction)The Canadian electronic duo Crystal Castles first attracted attention with their jarring juxtapositions: noise butting hard against what was called nu-rave at the time they emerged. The opening pairing of their second album suggests they mean to continue as they began, as the harshness of Fainting Spells gives way to Celestica, one of those swooning, melancholy European faux-classical melodies the Pet Shop Boys do so well. The album never gets that popcentric again, but it's closer in m...

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