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Universal acclaim- based on 121 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 109 out of 121
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Mixed: 7 out of 121
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Negative: 5 out of 121
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Mar 25, 2021I remember how mind-blowing this album was back in the day. 13 years later and it still sounds relevant. The noise, the screams, the dirty sound, all brought to perfection. This can't possibly be described.
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Aug 2, 2020
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Jun 24, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 29, 2019Good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love to listen for it while im going to school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Aug 13, 2016wow... such amazing album.. i love 8bit sound, it reminds me 2006-07... love, love, love,. Magic Spells, Vanished, Courtship Dating, Crimewave are the best. Also Trash Hologram. least fav: air war, reckless. THNX ETHAN
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Aug 25, 2014Few albums have felt as coherent, cohesive, catching, striking, exquisitely tasteful and easily digestible as Crystal Castles (I), and even less at a debut. Everything here sounds magic, esoteric, broken, electronic (taking the most literal meaning the word can possibly have).
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Nov 3, 2010Love these blip blops! Seriously love this duo so much. Deserves higher rating but like most good music it is left behind underrated just because it's a different sound. That different sound is what makes Crystal Castles so unique and great.
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Sep 23, 2010The debut album from Crystal Castles makes an impression right out of the gate and goes on to take the listener for a wild ride across it's sixteen energetic tracks. Flashing back and forth from melodic 8 bit inspired tunes to screeching noise pop it evokes a sound that people either love passionately or despise; very few people fall anywhere between these two extremes.
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AndrejSJun 21, 2009Simply amazing.
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TylerWJun 7, 2009
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ThomasM.May 6, 2008Who cares if previously released stuff is compiled here and there is little new material? It's all friggin' awesome.
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LeeteF.Apr 18, 2008I think this album is very nice. Very nice.
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[Anonymous]Mar 31, 2008Wow! This will definitely be one of the best albums of the year. The consistency of awesomeness throughout the album is incredible. It's practically impossible not to want to get up and dance when you hear "Black Panther." And tracks like "Love and Caring," with it's angry shouting and loud noise perfectly complement more relaxed but equally incredible tracks like "Magic Spells"
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JeremyF.Mar 29, 2008
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Awards & Rankings
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It's clear that Kath and Glass are already looking for more ways to expand on this familiar-sounding, edgy, innocent, menacing, bold, nuanced, and altogether striking debut.
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Alternative PressCrystal Castles is gloriously danceable and hopelessly chic. But really, it's... hearing only...judging is... you know? [Apr 2008, p.162]
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Glass’s voice, too, is the same that’s been luring lusty seamen onto the rocks for millennia, but the way it and the drums are textured--so that the machines they’re passed through sound like they’re melting away--brings Crystal Castles to the outer edges of greatness.