Crystal Castles were an experimental / electronic band which formed in 200… Read Full Bio ↴Crystal Castles were an experimental / electronic band which formed in 2003 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and last consisted of Ethan Kath and vocalist Edith Frances. Alice Glass served as the lead vocalist for the group since its foundation until 2014.
They are named after the lyrics "The fate of the world is safe in Crystal Castles" and "Crystal Castles, the source of all power" both from the theme song for She-Ra's fortress. They are known for their melancholic lo-fi sound and their explosive live shows. Their debut album was included in NME's "Top 50 Albums of the Decade".
Initially the band was intended to be a solo project started by Ethan Kath in December 2003. Ethan later discovered Alice Glass singing in a noise-punk band, and thought he had found the "missing ingredient" to his music.
In 2004 Kath gave Alice 60 instrumental tracks and in April 2005 she recorded vocals over five instrumentals. The limited vinyl release of the band's first single Alice Practice sold out in only three days.
The track was a microphone test by Glass and she was not aware that the recording existed until London UK's Merok Records asked to release the track on vinyl, according to now ex-bandmate Kath. However, Glass declared over a decade later that this story was not true.
On the 18th March 2008 they released their debut album entitled Crystal Castles. This album reached #47 on UK Albums Chart, #6 on US Top Electronic Albums, #13 on US Top Heatseekers, and #32 on US Independent Albums. Crystal Castles received great reviews and ranked #39 on NME Magazine "Top 50 Albums of the Decade". They issued four singles: Alice Practice (1 June 2006), Crimewave (Crystal Castles vs HEALTH) (13 August 2007), Air War (17 December 2007), and Courtship Dating (31 March 2008).
Crystal Castles are known not only for their own efforts as a band, but also for commissioned remixes for number of groups, including Hunting For Witches by Bloc Party, and Atlantis to Interzone by friends and label mates, Klaxons.
In mid-2008, Crystal Castles were involved in two controversies related to artwork permissions and samples in their earliest unreleased songs. Crystal Castles used Trevor Brown's artwork (depicting singer Madonna with a black eye) without permission.
Furthermore, in one of Kath's earliest, unreleased demos, he incorporated a sample without permission. The track, "Insectica (CC vs Lo-Bat Version)", uses clips chopped out of a song by Lo-bat called "My Little Droid Needs a Hand", released under a Creative Commons license. Another track called "Love and Caring", samples the kick and snare from Covox's "Sunday".
In 23 April 2010 the duo released their second album Crystal Castles (II). This album reached #48 on UK Singles Chart, #8 on UK Dance Albums Chart, #24 on US Digital Albums, #6 on US Top Electronic Albums, and #3 on US Top Heatseekers. Crystal Castles (II) has been met with mostly positive reviews from critics. To date, four singles were issued: Doe Deer, Celestica and Baptism, and a new version of the track Not In Love which featured Robert Smith of The Cure on vocals.
This became their biggest hit to date, charting in a great amount of countries including a #3 in Belgium (Flanders), a #31 in Denmark and various notable placements on official alternative music charts. "Not In Love", which is a cover of a Platinum Blonde song of the same name, was also featured in various television shows (including "Degrassi") and the popular football simulation videogame FIFA 12.
The band toured throughout 2010 in the US and abroad and played the Reading and Leeds Festivals and Glastonbury Festival in the UK and Big Day Out in Australia. In February 2011, the band will perform on the NME Awards Tour
The band's third album, (III) was released on November 21, 2012. The album contains the singles "Plague", "Wrath of God", and "Sad Eyes".
On October 8th 2014 it was announced on then lead singer Alice Glass' Twitter that she was leaving the band, and that the group would end. However, Crystal Castles' manager immediately reported that the band would continue, and on April 15th, 2015, Ethan Kath shared a new track titled Frail on SoundCloud, writing 'this is Edith on vocals', implying that fellow musician Edith Frances was Crystal Castles' new lead vocalist, which was in fact the case.
On 2 July 2015, another new song, Deicide, was released as a single. A new version of Deicide was later released on the album under the title Their Kindness is Charade.
In late November 2015, Edith Frances played her first show as the other half of Crystal Castles in South Africa.
In the last week of June 2016, the track Concrete was leaked on Korean website MNet. The track was later released as a single on July 6 with an accompanying video Video on the same day on YouTube.
On June 29, the band previewed a new track Femen with a teaser of the music Video showing birds caught and struggling in mist nets via Vimeo.
On July 11, the band announced the new record, Amnesty (I) along with its cover art and track list and also premiering Char as Annie Mac's Hottest Record on BBC Radio 1.
The single and pre-order for the album were made available a day later on July 12.
The fourth, and last pre-order single Fleece was made available on August 16 at the band's iTunes page.
Another single titled Sadist was released on August 18, followed by the official release of the album on August 19, 2016. Track Sadist was followed by Edith's message announced on CC official Facebook page.
On their official website CC announced that all band's proceeds from Amnesty (I) album will be donated to Amnesty International. New album Vinyl and CD includes bonus track Kept.
http://www.crystalcastles.com
Various sources have reported that, as of 2018, Crystal Castles remains in a hiatus with no signs of new material coming in the near future.
They are named after the lyrics "The fate of the world is safe in Crystal Castles" and "Crystal Castles, the source of all power" both from the theme song for She-Ra's fortress. They are known for their melancholic lo-fi sound and their explosive live shows. Their debut album was included in NME's "Top 50 Albums of the Decade".
Initially the band was intended to be a solo project started by Ethan Kath in December 2003. Ethan later discovered Alice Glass singing in a noise-punk band, and thought he had found the "missing ingredient" to his music.
In 2004 Kath gave Alice 60 instrumental tracks and in April 2005 she recorded vocals over five instrumentals. The limited vinyl release of the band's first single Alice Practice sold out in only three days.
The track was a microphone test by Glass and she was not aware that the recording existed until London UK's Merok Records asked to release the track on vinyl, according to now ex-bandmate Kath. However, Glass declared over a decade later that this story was not true.
On the 18th March 2008 they released their debut album entitled Crystal Castles. This album reached #47 on UK Albums Chart, #6 on US Top Electronic Albums, #13 on US Top Heatseekers, and #32 on US Independent Albums. Crystal Castles received great reviews and ranked #39 on NME Magazine "Top 50 Albums of the Decade". They issued four singles: Alice Practice (1 June 2006), Crimewave (Crystal Castles vs HEALTH) (13 August 2007), Air War (17 December 2007), and Courtship Dating (31 March 2008).
Crystal Castles are known not only for their own efforts as a band, but also for commissioned remixes for number of groups, including Hunting For Witches by Bloc Party, and Atlantis to Interzone by friends and label mates, Klaxons.
In mid-2008, Crystal Castles were involved in two controversies related to artwork permissions and samples in their earliest unreleased songs. Crystal Castles used Trevor Brown's artwork (depicting singer Madonna with a black eye) without permission.
Furthermore, in one of Kath's earliest, unreleased demos, he incorporated a sample without permission. The track, "Insectica (CC vs Lo-Bat Version)", uses clips chopped out of a song by Lo-bat called "My Little Droid Needs a Hand", released under a Creative Commons license. Another track called "Love and Caring", samples the kick and snare from Covox's "Sunday".
In 23 April 2010 the duo released their second album Crystal Castles (II). This album reached #48 on UK Singles Chart, #8 on UK Dance Albums Chart, #24 on US Digital Albums, #6 on US Top Electronic Albums, and #3 on US Top Heatseekers. Crystal Castles (II) has been met with mostly positive reviews from critics. To date, four singles were issued: Doe Deer, Celestica and Baptism, and a new version of the track Not In Love which featured Robert Smith of The Cure on vocals.
This became their biggest hit to date, charting in a great amount of countries including a #3 in Belgium (Flanders), a #31 in Denmark and various notable placements on official alternative music charts. "Not In Love", which is a cover of a Platinum Blonde song of the same name, was also featured in various television shows (including "Degrassi") and the popular football simulation videogame FIFA 12.
The band toured throughout 2010 in the US and abroad and played the Reading and Leeds Festivals and Glastonbury Festival in the UK and Big Day Out in Australia. In February 2011, the band will perform on the NME Awards Tour
The band's third album, (III) was released on November 21, 2012. The album contains the singles "Plague", "Wrath of God", and "Sad Eyes".
On October 8th 2014 it was announced on then lead singer Alice Glass' Twitter that she was leaving the band, and that the group would end. However, Crystal Castles' manager immediately reported that the band would continue, and on April 15th, 2015, Ethan Kath shared a new track titled Frail on SoundCloud, writing 'this is Edith on vocals', implying that fellow musician Edith Frances was Crystal Castles' new lead vocalist, which was in fact the case.
On 2 July 2015, another new song, Deicide, was released as a single. A new version of Deicide was later released on the album under the title Their Kindness is Charade.
In late November 2015, Edith Frances played her first show as the other half of Crystal Castles in South Africa.
In the last week of June 2016, the track Concrete was leaked on Korean website MNet. The track was later released as a single on July 6 with an accompanying video Video on the same day on YouTube.
On June 29, the band previewed a new track Femen with a teaser of the music Video showing birds caught and struggling in mist nets via Vimeo.
On July 11, the band announced the new record, Amnesty (I) along with its cover art and track list and also premiering Char as Annie Mac's Hottest Record on BBC Radio 1.
The single and pre-order for the album were made available a day later on July 12.
The fourth, and last pre-order single Fleece was made available on August 16 at the band's iTunes page.
Another single titled Sadist was released on August 18, followed by the official release of the album on August 19, 2016. Track Sadist was followed by Edith's message announced on CC official Facebook page.
On their official website CC announced that all band's proceeds from Amnesty (I) album will be donated to Amnesty International. New album Vinyl and CD includes bonus track Kept.
http://www.crystalcastles.com
Various sources have reported that, as of 2018, Crystal Castles remains in a hiatus with no signs of new material coming in the near future.
Bitter Hearts
Crystal Castles Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by Crystal Castles:
"Crimewave" Eyes lit I want short breaths I found dark eye lids Nice bre…
- Untrust Us La cocaína no es buena Para su salud La cocaína Is not good…
11. Pap Smear You never got to bloom They cut you from the stem You're…
12. Not In Love I saw your picture hangin' on the back of my…
7. Courtship Dating How do I feel for thee? You smell of great disease 'Cause…
Affection Catch a moth hold it in my hand Crush it casually Without…
åffection Catch a moth, hold it in my hand Crush it casually Without…
Air War Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons Steelyringing imperthnthn…
Air WAr de Bronze by gold heard the hoofrons, Steelyringing imperthnthn…
AirWar Bronze by gold heard the hoofrons, Steelyringing imperthnthn…
Alice Practice (Hi) Scars will heal soon This dreg in us spent the earth…
Baptism Hold my head under water Take a breath for the Father Learn…
Birds Expose them to the air Drag them by the hair If you…
Black Panther I close my eyes, all that I see Is a thousand…
Caring Here's my genius plan To make superior man Anatomically bu…
Celestica As we fall into sequence And we're eating our young Remain s…
Char I'm afraid they're gonna find you And there's nothing that I…
Child I Will Hurt You Keep them locked away Reduce them to strays Clean their cuts…
Chloroform Their chloroform Sub to counterpart That one's not too hard …
Concrete Strangle the while you pray Demand that they're diseased Saf…
Courtship Dating How do I feel for thee? You smell of great disease 'Cause…
Courtship Dating How do I feel for thee? Your smile brings disease 'Cause we'…
Crime Wave Eyes lit I want short breaths I found dark eye lids Nice bre…
Crimewave Eyes lit on sharp threats From dark lips The lights press th…
Crimewave %28Crystal Castles vs. HEALTH%29 Eyes lit on sharp threats from dark lips The lights press…
Crimewave (Crystal Castles vs. HEALTH) Eyes lit On sharp threats From darks lips Dadadada die Nic…
Crystal Castles Eyes lit I want short breaths I found dark eye lids Nice …
d Hi Scars, in you, son You shrug it off Except that you don't…
Deicide Their kindness is charade It's used to sedate They remain un…
Demos Its spitting Angels die with you…
Doe Deer Deathray deathray Deathray deathray Deathray deathray Deathr…
Dreams "Won't you let me, well you know I can drive Please…
Empathy Premise to interlude Wait til all bones protrude You're con-…
Enth Attempt to elude Confer to evade Appearances maintained Unif…
Exoskeleton Look at that lady, she wears bitch heels The top of…
Fainting Spells I'll make you forget With the taste of lambskin The bounty i…
Femen For a reason, for a reason…
Fleece I lo-, I lo- I need your fabrication It's my pleasure to…
Frail If you defray You end up prey Glow through the veil Is this…
Good Time Good times keep rolling, got to dance to escape now Good…
Insectica I, insectica Fly thru dimensia You give me more than…
Insecticon I, Insectica Fly through dementia You give me more than me…
Insulin We dissolve everything Scratch follicles so they don’t grow…
Intimate Collecting hearts Another love is another place to stay Anot…
Kerosene Light of God dimming weak Nothing's wrong go back to sleep L…
Knights Is this the hiv? Angels die with- Is this the hiv? Angels di…
Leni To believe There are times when I will need you Times when…
Love & Caring Here's my genius plan To make superior man Anatomically buil…
Love and Caring Here's my genius plan Make superior man Anatomically built T…
Love n Caring Here's my genius plan To make superior man Anatomically bu…
Lovers Who Uncover Where do all the lovers meet with one another, In an…
Magic Spells Don't worry, dear Pamela I'll do my scientific best to comma…
Mercenary Silhouettes caress without feeling Who’ll be your mercenary …
Mother Knows Best Feel her tight between my thighs from across the football…
No Skin You just shot one down Chi Chi Chi You started a chain rea…
Not in Love I saw your picture hangin' on the back of my…
Ornament Take that, it′ll leave you Take that, it'll leave you…
P A L E F L E S H Place the ash on their foreheads An impression to embed Born…
Pap Smear You never got to bloom They cut you from the stem You're…
Plague I need you pure I need you clean Don't try to…
Sad Eyes She wears her veil at night Shadows cast uninvite Discourage…
Sadist Keep them on this course Graceful without remorse Paresthesi…
Seed hi Scars, in you, son you shrug it off except that you do…
Suffocation We ignore refused consent Animals do not repent Courtesy to …
Tell Me What to Swallow Through the wall, he threw me I know he'd never hurt…
Their Kindness Is Charade Their kindness is charade It's used to sedate They rema…
Through the Hosiery You want it out so just take my spawn Feel complete…
Transgender Are from the start The chosen few Out of the youth Are from…
Trash Hologram I′m afraid that you've caught me by surprise I′m afraid that…
Un trust Us La cocaina no Es buena Para su salud La cocaina Is not good…
Untrust Us La cocaína no es buena Para su salud La cocaína Is not good…
Untrust Us (Nils Nilsson Remix La cocaína no es muy buena para su salud La cocaína…
Vanished In the dark, come out and play We are its child-,…
VANiSHED! In the dark , We come out and play We are…
Violent Dreams "Won't you let me, well you know I can drive Please…
Violent Youth Show up in your lace Drink up little girl And they will…
Wrath of God Christen them with paraffin Sterilize Samaritans Contravene …
xxzxcuzx me We can insist on havoc Bring me the tools Pleasure our insid…
xxzxcz me we can insist on having robots bugs and insects useless leav…
xxzxczx me We can insist on having robots Bugs and insects, useless Lea…
Year of Silence Illum latum, i faomi gratum pegar ao vio hittumst pegar ao v…
Yes No Leave us daddy, leave my mom I wanna be where you…
_Magic_Spells Don't worry, dear Pamela I'll do my scientific best to comma…
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Untitled Profile
this should be titled "Insectica Instrumental" bitter hearts is a different song
kaleidoscope
I'll fix it as soon as it's possible, thanks for the correction 🎶💞
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kaleidoscope 🧡
Maverick
@Untitled Profile this was originally called bitter hearts?
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@Maverick nope
Maverick
@Untitled Profile do they have a demo called bitter hearts?