Album Review: Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (II)

Usually electronic music is much easier to stomach if it doesn’t sound like someone deep in concentration, standing behind a complex series of machines. There needs to be an element of instinct about it, as if any decision that was made creatively was made not for the sake of it, but for a real purpose. On their second (and also self-titled) album, Crystal Castles certainly don’t sound like they’re phoning it in, even if they don’t always feel like an organic beast as opposed to a mechanical one.

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