Crystal Castles vs. HEALTH – “Crimewave”
Eyes lit
On sharp threats
From dark lips
But lights press
The soft skin
To rough hands.
Alice Glass’s voice, like that of the Knife’s Karin Dreijer Andersson, is merely a suggestion for Crystal Castles, a flesh-and-blood formation to digitally gild, deconstruct and rebuild. We don’t hear her sing the word “hands”, we hear nine diced-up [...]