When they were done, the studio gave them 6 songs, the 5 which were planned and one they had secretly recorded of the microphone test, and included it on the CD. Whatever she’d put on my tracks would be fine, and she’ll never write a clichéd lyric." When she was ready, they went to a local studio to record their first 5 songs.
Ethan was quoted saying, in NOW magazine, "As soon as I saw her perform with 'Fetus Fatale', I knew I could trust her and that I wouldn’t have to look over anything she does. People believed he gone completely mad or that he had died.Įthan says in the summer of 2004, he put together a CD of instrumentals he had created and gave it to Alice to write vocal parts.
He had isolated himself from everyone for a few months working on his new idea for a band. He enjoyed the band and quoted the guys to be "great people to play with" but, by the time they were offered record deals he decided he wanted to do something different. A year after, he started a garage-metal band called Jakarta saying he was trying to mix Stooges vocals with Iron Maiden guitars. Just as they were about to record their first album Phil Placentile passed away, died in his sleep of an aneurysm brought on by medication he was taking for Rheumatoid Arthritis. In high school he was a drummer in a band which was run by his best friend Phil Placentile, they played Toronto's punk scene for before changing their style drastically to a more folk sound.
I wanted to live primitively with no money and no shelter." Both continue an on going mystery of their real surnames.Įthan, who I've seen go by Ethan Kath, Ethan Fawn, Ethan Catheter and Claudio, was in many bands before Crystal Castles. It's stated in an NME interview, that “at the age of 14, she changed her name, changed her age, and ran away from home to live in a community of punks and drug addicts.” She claimed this move was "due to an early existential crisis. After discussing modern music, and that no one was doing anything new, they decided they would try to create a new sound and genre as best as they could.Īlice, at the time, was in the four piece noise-punk girl-band 'Fetus Fatale,' she played with them up until Crystal Castles started touring. I have read in other articles that Alice was a crush of one of Ethan's friends but since they have never said it I don't believe it. Lets take an in depth, and I’m not kidding, look at these electronic masterminds and their accidental success.Īccording to an interview with SPIN magazine, the two Torontonians first met while completing community service by reading to the blind, Alice was being punished for living in a Toronto squat and Ethan was serving for an undisclosed crime.
However, there is a lot more to this ferocious duo then most of the media would like to grant them. Something that is going to draw a clear line in the sand, Biblical to half the people who hear it and the other half won't understand it and dismiss it as garbage.Ĭrystal Castles draws that line, millions of people take this music and make it their religion, and others reject it as the music for seizures. That takes a stab at making something and then turning it into something else, something different, something interesting and memorable. Every now and then a band comes along that you don't know what to make of.
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