The more I think about this, the more I like it. At a time when lots of bands are drenching stuff in faux lo-fi fuzz to make it sound nastier than it really is, Crystal Castles just blasted the levels of everything. It'll be interesting to see whether people consider it a plus or a minus that the sound of the record morphs with the volume you play it at.

4/18/2010 7:22:59 PM

isohunt bitched out and changed the fuck out of their site

4/18/2010 7:29:54 PM

I was big on Swim (and still am), but I seriously have not heard one album so far that has made me want to take In Evening Air off of rotation. I guess that's just me, though.

4/18/2010 8:17:11 PM

there are some really intense songs on this crystal castles record. i like.

4/18/2010 8:32:35 PM

Future Islands' song "In The Fall" is definitely one of the best i've heard this year

4/18/2010 8:39:02 PM

link to crystal castles? I'm a virgin.

4/18/2010 9:06:36 PM

nm. got it. i can see my fiance and i playing this into the ground for the next several weeks.

4/18/2010 9:20:56 PM

"intimate" is this album's "magic spells".

4/18/2010 10:19:46 PM

I'm enjoying that new Circa Survive.

4/19/2010 2:49:29 AM

Crystal Castles' album is so good. especially when it's really fucking loud.

4/19/2010 2:55:34 AM

it got me wanting a system in my car again, for a moment.

4/19/2010 8:16:20 AM

That Crystal Castles is fucking sick. I'm gonna go play Super Mario Land.

4/19/2010 10:19:44 AM

high violet is out there
hxxp://www.mediafire.com/?yqonnymftzz

4/19/2010 12:49:51 PM

^thanks, just in time for me to go see them this weekend in Richmond.

4/19/2010 12:58:23 PM

yeah, I wish I could go to that show, stupid wedding

4/19/2010 12:59:08 PM

thanks for the national....resisting listening b/c i heard it was a 160...really want this to be best quality my first time.

4/19/2010 1:32:14 PM

New Minus The Bear streaming here (I cant listen at work..doh):

http://www.kcrw.com/media-player/mediaPlayer2.html?type=audio&id=ap100419minus_the_bear_omni

4/19/2010 1:50:20 PM

^Awesome, really liking it so far

4/19/2010 2:37:57 PM

Quote :

"Crystal Castles' album is so good. especially when it's really fucking loud."

can't...stop...listening. fav. tracks so far: celestica, empathy, pap smear, intimate

[Edited on April 19, 2010 at 6:45 PM. Reason : -]

4/19/2010 6:44:16 PM

for the new crystal castles...did I get the right version? It just reminds me (with the exception of doe deer which it works with) as T-Pain's autotune songs on drugs.

edit--- as it turns out, I didn't have a full version...and I still don't know if I have the right version. This empathy song is alright I guess. Still not stoked on what I've heard.

It's not a 2010, but these guys came out late 2009 with an ep. Big Spider's Back

http://www.myspace.com/bigspidersback Warped's a pretty good song. Reminds me of a lot of bands, so it's nothing fresh, but good sound.

[Edited on April 19, 2010 at 10:32 PM. Reason : hmmmm]

4/19/2010 10:17:32 PM

There's autotune on the Crystal Castles album?

4/19/2010 11:42:58 PM

I have no idea what version I got....I just ended up listening to what they have on myspace and it's not what I got on a download. Beware of a version that sounds like I described lol.


also, the Dan Deacon remix of Owen Pallett's "lewis takes off his shirt" is gooood.

[Edited on April 20, 2010 at 12:24 AM. Reason : ...]

4/19/2010 11:55:08 PM

thanks for the national... it's freakin amazing. will likely be my favorite album of 2010. even this "low quality" rip sounds really really good. sufjan stevens sings back-up in track 5, juston vernon (bon iver) sings back-up in track 11.

4/20/2010 2:06:47 AM

i am loving the new minus the bear. they have such a polished sound on this album and it sounds perfect. cant wait to see them at Amos' the Fillmore.

anyone have the new broken social scene?

[Edited on April 20, 2010 at 9:43 AM. Reason : .]

4/20/2010 9:34:15 AM

1) for some reason I did not know the were playing Charlotte in May (or I might have dismissed it because it was a Sunday...but I'm considering going now ha).
2) I see it listed at The Fillmore not Amos', am I missing something?

4/20/2010 9:41:26 AM

^ oops. fillmore. not amos'. alllll apppoooologies.

4/20/2010 9:41:57 AM

word, thanks. I might be going...not sure. The wife and I both have to be at work on 7am in gville, sc the next day but MTB is a band that we have kept missing live for years and years so we are considering it.

4/20/2010 9:44:11 AM

just got around to listening to crystal castles. it's fucking sick.

4/20/2010 9:50:30 AM

tickets are pretty steep... $28.00

4/20/2010 10:01:17 AM

ugh that sucks. I miss when I could go see bands like them for like $10/$12 bucks. I remember when the Solid State tour came through Charlotte in like 2004 (just after uO's TOCS came out) people were saying "omg the tickets are $16/$18, thats so expensive." Seems like its hard to get under $20 anymore for shows I'm interested in. (Of course thats mainly due to the fees etc.)

[Edited on April 20, 2010 at 10:21 AM. Reason : ]

4/20/2010 10:20:43 AM

$28 is not expensive for a show.

just remember if you listened to shitty music it would be like $70 minimum for tickets and it would always sell out

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[Edited on April 20, 2010 at 10:41 AM. Reason : ]

4/20/2010 10:41:26 AM

haha well yea, compared to that it looks like a steal. I wasn't really using them in my comparison, since I don't go to those kind of shows, but point taken.

4/20/2010 10:44:38 AM

i mean the most expensive metal show i've ever been to was $40 albeit i've never been to like festivals or any huge bands like slayer or some shit. I think i payed 35 to see megadeth.

Idk people have money for what they want to have money for, i'll agree its different when you have to drive kinda far for shows on top of paying a lot, maybe i just don't have anything better to do with my money.

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4/20/2010 10:53:58 AM

i don't care who you are, $28 is expensive

hell, i'm iffy about seeing sharon jones for $25, and she sure as hell puts on a better show than minus the bear

but i saw spider bags and titus andronicus kick ass for 2+ hours on sunday and it was $8...i still run on that pricing model

4/20/2010 11:02:06 AM

thats like 3 movie tickets. a concert is what like 3-5 hours if you get there early?

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4/20/2010 11:09:40 AM

gosh this National record is good

4/20/2010 11:11:25 AM

i don't know what shows you're going to that feature more than three hours of music, let alone five

but the shows i go to sure don't (not complaining, just sayin')

4/20/2010 11:18:35 AM

$28 is expensive for a show. don't know wtf this dude is talking about

this Here We Go Magic is pretty enjoyable yo

4/20/2010 11:20:38 AM

Once pricing gets above $20 or so I'm a little "eehhhhhh...." about seeing the show.


There's a few exceptions, like when it's multiple bands that I enjoy. But I have to know the venue as well for those higher priced shows, too.


Like, I would never pay more than $10 to see a show at say, the Brewery or the Pour House. But I would totally pay $25 to see a show at Cat's or Local 506.

4/20/2010 11:32:27 AM

i mean if i'm seeing some shitty ass metal bands at volume 11 then i'm not paying more than like $15

but that BTBAM, Mastodon, Valient Thor show was from like around 8-12, and Shrinebuilder was rumoured to be playing there as well. The rest of the tour will have Baroness.



Average show i go to is like 3 hours. thats giving like 10 minutes set down & 15 for set up. I don't think thats a long time.


^yeah exactly. I sure as fuck don't pay $40 to see bands i kind of like. For example theres a show this weekend $25 4 bands i only really like 1 of them which i've seen before so i'm not going. Basically i'll pay $10 for bands i like and $15 per band i love and there aint many of them

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[Edited on April 20, 2010 at 11:42 AM. Reason : ]

4/20/2010 11:40:06 AM

i saw the smashing pumpkins for $25. that was a steal.

$28 for minus the bear is not a steal

4/20/2010 1:07:56 PM

ahh, this high violet rip is such bad quality.

do i keep listening??

[Edited on April 20, 2010 at 1:11 PM. Reason : 1:30 in though it's getting a thumbs up. tough decision.]

4/20/2010 1:11:35 PM

^ yeh, can anyone find the higher quality rip? it's out there... I'm just not very good at finding them

4/20/2010 1:56:27 PM

^^don't be put off by the first track. It is meant to sound lo-fi. Something about them not being happy with any of the re-records, so they stuck the demo on the final album. The quality on the rest is fine.

AFAIK the highest quality out there right now is a 216k VBR, which probably isn't much of an improvement.

[Edited on April 20, 2010 at 3:25 PM. Reason : d]

4/20/2010 3:24:41 PM

^ this seems to be correct. situation avoided, i'm not a rip-quality snob.

[Edited on April 20, 2010 at 4:03 PM. Reason : i'm glad you said something. i had turned it off halfway through the first song.]

4/20/2010 3:53:46 PM

I, too, was confused by the first track

[Edited on April 20, 2010 at 4:34 PM. Reason : Piano melody on "England" sounds a lot like the first track on Illinois]

4/20/2010 4:07:39 PM

Quote :

"this Here We Go Magic is pretty enjoyable yo"

definitely. i bumped that a lot when i first got it, then some other albums came into the rotation. need to get this back in.

4/20/2010 4:35:38 PM

^^ it's sufjan doing both... i don't really hear it other than a passing resemblance....

[Edited on April 20, 2010 at 4:55 PM. Reason : df]

4/20/2010 4:51:33 PM

I, too, want to go to the Minus the Bear show but am put off by the $28 ticket price.

4/20/2010 5:09:52 PM

I never could get into The National. Despite multiple attempts. New album didn't do anything for me, either.

[Edited on April 20, 2010 at 5:14 PM. Reason : .]

4/20/2010 5:11:55 PM