They were on Skins so they must be cool, along with drugs and pre-marital sex of course. OK, so I think this is an awesome photo, and I also think that CrimeWave is a bit of tune, but something does bother me about Crystal Castles. Something prevents me wanting to delve into them any deeper. I think its got something to do with the hype, and attitude that they surround themselves with, or that people around them create. At a discussion seminar/meeting type thing last night people were talking about Slipknot and instantly started talking about masks, image and identity, skimming hastily over the fact that they are, musically so distinctive and spot on at what they do. Slipknot have three drummers and six guitarists, not to mention a cult following to die for. Yet, ironically people outside that bubble struggle to move their conversation away from their appearance. A lad next to me in a very stylish CSS Tshirt explained that the music itself only makes up a pokey amount of who a band really are as artists, and that image can play a major part in the rest of that attraction. Crystal Castles are, to be brutally honest pretty average in my opinion, they've got some great electro/vaguely progressive choons, but nothing to write home (or blog about =S). However as they are pretty cutting edge in terms of fashion, photography etc and behave so badly on stage does that make them seem more relevant to music than they really are? Maybe a little bit. I mean where would Alice Cooper be without the face paints and would Elbow's audience change if they bought a running machine and some Crystal Castles Tshirts?
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Unfortunately for your argument, it is well known that Crystal Castles had 10 million+ plays on their myspace page before they ever showed us their faces or any image.
Even now there's 30 million plays on the page, that says something about the music itself.
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