Crystal Castles: III – review

(Fiction)Listening to Alice Glass describe Crystal Castles' third album doesn't exactly get you in the mood for party jams. "Oppression is a theme, in general … " she begins, before adding: "It feels like the world is a dystopia where victims don't get justice and corruption prevails." Achieving such a laid-back, cheery vibe involved the band trading in the tools (keyboards, FX pedals) used on I and II in order to start afresh with a new palette of sounds. And yet the most affecting songs on I...

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