With the release of their second album, their music became more aesthetic and more sharply focused, mixing synth pop and loud rock sounds with increasing skill. The group's second album, released variously as Crystal Castles, Crystal Castles (II), and simply (II), was released on May 24, 2010. In December 2009, Kath gave vocalist Alice Glass a CD-R containing 70 instrumental tracks, for which she then recorded vocals on 35 tracks. It was so cold that when I listen back I can hear myself shivering. Of the experience, Kath said, "I recorded most of the record in the coldest winter in decades in a church without heat in Iceland. The band began recording their second album in a variety of locations including an abandoned church in Iceland, a self-built cabin in northern Ontario, a garage behind an abandoned drug store in Detroit, as well as Paul Epworth's London studio. Back in Toronto, Crystal Castles performed at the Sound Academy as part of the Time Festival. They also performed at the 2009 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee. They supported Blur on the first of two comeback shows in Hyde Park, London in July 2009. Over Halloween, they played a gig in LA that involved Alice Glass wrecking the drum kit. The band also played Connect 2008 and the Iceland Airwaves festival.
Crystal Castles played five dates with Nine Inch Nails in August 2008. Ĭrystal Castles performed at the Glastonbury Festival in June 2008, where the on-stage antics of Glass, including climbing the rigging and stage-diving, led to the organizers curtailing their set. They headlined a Vice magazine tour across the UK in November 2007, and the 2008 NME New Noise tour across the UK. 2008–2009: Crystal CastlesĬrystal Castles performing at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2009Ĭrystal Castles toured heavily and performed at numerous festivals around the world to support the album, including Ireland's Oxegen Festival, the All Points West Music & Arts Festival in New Jersey, Coachella Valley and Music Festival in Indio, California, the Heineken Open'er Festival in Poland, and the Reading and Leeds Festivals in England. In February 2008, Kath said his aim was to ".make the most annoying sounds ever scream over and then we'll try to open for Melt Banana". Several limited-edition 7-inch vinyl singles followed in 20 on various independent labels, including two on London's Trouble Records.
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After miming the song on the British television series Skins, demand for the Alice Practice EP grew rapidly.
The pair picked their stage names together, with the name "Crystal Castles" pulled from a line in the cartoon She-Ra: Princess of Power: "The fate of the world is safe in Crystal Castles." Īlice Practice became the band's first limited vinyl release in 2006.
Īfter being posted online, this track garnered attention and the duo decided to re-form for a formal release.
The sessions resulted in the track " Alice Practice", which was shelved for six months. A couple of years later, Kath asked Glass to record vocals over tracks he had been working on since 2003. Kath had already found a small bit of fame in Toronto's music scene, having made appearances on local television with his previous band, Kill Cheerleader. Ethan Kath (born Claudio Palmieri) met Alice Glass (born Margaret Osborn) in Toronto, Ontario, when she was in the 10th grade and he was 10 years her senior.
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