Apologies to anyone who sort of follows me, I have had another long break, this time my excuse is better, I have had AS levels (see told you).
Anyway, down to business. A couple of posts ago I mentioned some upcoming albums that I didn’t want to disappoint me, well…they have both arrived.
The first, imaginatively named Crystal Castles II – Crystal Castles
Their 1st album was incredible. This one is most definitely a movement away from it, much more ambient as opposed to the brutality of the first album. Highlights of the album are these three songs:
This was the first song I heard on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 show and thought, bloody hell this is going to be a very dark album. In fact this was an anomaly compared to the rest, but it is brilliant. Very distorted, very brutal, very crystal castles.
Celestica – Crystal Castles γ song
This was the first ‘new direction’ (glee!!) song I heard, and it was love at first hearing. Just let yourself float away to this song. Very trippy.
This one was further down the album, and something reminiscent can be heard from their first album in this song, check it out.
Overall, this album gets an 8.74/10, through a mean rating system compared to an 8.75/10 from their first album. Both Very good albums, but both different in their own ways.
The other album was:
This album was of less importance to me due to it being released just after the above album and I was obsessed with that.This gets an 8.36/10. Good but doesn’t top Crystal castles’ but it does beat it’s previous album which I give a 7.82/10.
Highlights are:
Really liked this song because of the guitar song and the melody of the chorus.
More downbeat and echoey than other songs but the sustained notes are very relaxing, awesome
Now, moving onto some drum and bass and dubstep (or gorestep)
I was asked to get this song for a friend and was very pleasantly surprised with it. The artist, Camo & Krooked are a predominantly DnB artist but when I listened to the first half of the song, a house beat was rattling my room, I thought OK slight movement of genre. However the song builds up a drops into a full blown DnB beat with an awesome bassline.
History Of The Future – Camo & Krooked
The next artist I found after a friend linked a youtube video of him on facebook. His dubstep is so filthy that apparently ‘Borgore Killed Dubstep’ and his genre is Gorestep. Check it out:
‘Girl, when we in bed act like a ho, but first do the dishes’ <- lol
Peace Out x
Tags: Borgore, Camo & Krooked, Crystal Castles, Foals
