"Vanished" uses the song "Sex City" by Van She."Good Time" uses the track "Good Times (Dance Mix)" from Drinking Electicity, a Scottish synthpop project from the 80s."Magic Spells" samples the song "The Message" from Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five and includes a quote from Miniseries V, a 1983 science fiction series."Air War" contains a passage from "Thema (Omaggio a Joyce)" by the Italian avant-garde composer Luciano Berio."Courtship Dating" uses the song "Courtship" by the same band. "Crimewave" uses the song of the same name by the noise rock band Health."Untrust Us" samples the song "Dead Womb" from Death from Above 1979.Harald Jakobs awards 7/10 points on and writes: The site awarded 7.8 / 10 points to the album. Lyrics are hard to take in account because some songs are just instrumentals. Its kind of a compilation of noisy and rhythmic sounds. Lyrics are hard to take in Crystal Castles first project strikes us very harshly.
Pitchfork Media praised the band's vitality on the one hand, but also that unpredictability was a central element of the record. Crystal Castles first project strikes us very harshly. In the end, a photo of the two band members standing bent over in front of a garage was used as a simple artwork.Īll in all, the album was well received by critics. Brown, the photographer, also opposed the use of the photo. But the label distributors in the USA refused to sell an album with a Madonna face and without any content from Madonna. The actual cover, which should adorn the album, was a Madonna photo by Trevor Brown. The track "Alice Practice" is an improvised microphone test which the label liked so much that it was added to the album (without Alice Glass' knowledge). The album fluctuates between aggressive Electropunk pieces ( "Alice Practice", "Xxzxcuzx Me" ), quieter electro pieces ( "Untrust Us", "Magic Spells", "Vanished" ) and a swivel into the Shoegaze / Dream-Pop - Genre with "Tell Me What To Swallow". The album is a compilation of the band's previous sold-out singles, early unreleased tracks, and three new productions recorded especially for the album.
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