#crystal castles 3

[reckonslepoisson]

Crystal Castles (2008) Crystal Castles (II) (2010) (III) (2012) Crystal Castles

Crystal Castles dominated music journalism discourse for years (just look how long their Wikipedia page is!) and that isn’t so perplexing. The duo’s blasts of noisy, gothy, punky synthpop ideally combo’d innovation and accessibility, while their approach clearly developed throughout these three records – which are the only ones with Alice Glass, so the only ones worth your time. The debut was a little repetitive, though certainly thrilling in parts; the next was both poppier and less so, producing a car-advert-appropriate pop stomper or two and a few heedless screamo things; while the third was the most cohesive. All are compelling enough but now a little dated, a sort of gloomy, more imprecise and less mobile precursor to the bolder experiments of the PC Music gang a few years later. 

Pick(s): ‘Crimewave’, ‘Celestica’, ‘Sad Eyes’

[elizabugz]

[skinwalkn]

going straight to hell but I'm still a dawg

[669ratz]

passionate highs by snow strippers but agent 8

[mag1cspells]

[cannibalhol0caust]

I believe 🛸

sp00kyblack__

<3

[andrew3garfield]

i was tagged by @scarstarved thank uuuu 🩷 to go here and share a couple emotional support albums. these are just ones i'm listening to A LOT at the moment but it truly changes like the weather, apart from preacher's daughter– that's my nr 1 album forever i can't even fully get why, although i know why. it means the world to me.

tagging (no pressure <3) @andyridgeley @halfmoonshines @the-mummy @bloodyfemme @elisabethsparkle @swoulist @gloomyballerina @furyosas

[catlover-999]

i’m Miss World

SOMEBODY KILL ME!!!

[sickbunnyz]

;P

[2008-suburbs]

🐈‍⬛💉

[glassd0ll601]

[mag1cspells]

[dimeremantiro]

"Risk nothing, and you gain nothing." // from @landaullan

"Risk everything and you lose everything." Elodie countered, not unkindly. One day she would be a queen, and yet she was hiring this powerful courier secretly and outside the protocolar bounds of court, having paid him a not insignificant sum just for showing up. It was obvious that she was risking something.

"All risk in life deserves being calculated. And I'm saying this as you too, would be risking something. I'm looking for someone to go into the Old Forest for me. You'd be risking yourself."

The Old Forest and Nova's First Royal Palace (The old castle in the centre of said forest, now abandoned) had been haunted and crawling with monsters for years, violent and dark and with very few survivors. Many have tried to take from the castle, and few have returned. Bloodthirsty Griffins, soulhounds and Keythongs stalk all that come close.

"I need someone to retrieve three items from the Old Palace. I have found their exact location. You could put all of them in your pocket, and keep one, if it keeps you back."

Elodie didn't want to talk at length about being a Lumen, neither of the magic power it gave you or the bond with a crystal to an outsider if she wasn't sure they would keep the offer, so she kept it cryptic. If he asked for the dangers of the Old Forest, she would answer, if he had conditions, she would hear them. And what else would keep a person back other than a magical object?

[hir0sims]

my angel knight ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭