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9.2
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9.2 |
PlayGround
They had been showing signs of delivering the soundtrack of these times, and now they have
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9.0
48299
9.0 |
NME
Being doomed seldom sounded so beautiful
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9.0
48507
9.0 |
The Digital Fix
III is bold, dramatic, transcendent and a little bit fucked up. It’s a startling document of a group in extremis
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8.6
48498
8.6 |
Paste Magazine
For all its efforts to be different, (III) feels like more of what fans have come to expect from Crystal Castles
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8.5
48306
8.5 |
BBC
The core elements are so big, like blasts of pure plasmic energy, that it sounds planet-sized
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8.5
48320
8.5 |
Prefix
It's an invisibly political record - and an absolutely necessary one
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8.3
48538
8.3 |
The AU Review
This is a record which has the ability to fill both expansive arenas and claustrophobic clubs with dark blends of synth-pop and industrial electronica
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8.0
48559
8.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
III is less playful than the duo’s previous couple of offerings, but it’s thematic mood is much tighter and more fully realized
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8.0
48575
8.0 |
No Ripcord
Rarely is an electronic album sparked with such radical confidence
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8.0
48590
8.0 |
The Guardian
The most affecting songs on III don't sound like a band raging at the outside world, but rather experiencing a very personal kind of misery
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8.0
48504
8.0 |
Blurt
What makes the group's songs so effective is the dark, raw emotion that is always on display
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8.0
48915
8.0 |
PopMatters
Inspiring, warped, feverishly uncomfortable, bold, bloody and brilliant
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8.0
49076
8.0 |
Q
Toronto's noisiest duo clean up their sound - ever so slightly. Print edition only
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8.0
48321
8.0 |
The Arts Desk
Every song is laced with sweeping synth sweetness of a profoundly melancholy nature
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8.0
48284
8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
An impressive, oppressive album that marks a new, more considered era for Crystal Castles, the recording artists
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8.0
48443
8.0 |
God Is In The TV
The Canadian duo have come along way since their debut back in 2008 with ‘III‘ being their most mature outing yet
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8.0
48390
8.0 |
Independent on Sunday
If the Mayans were right and the world really is going to end this December, you won't hear many better soundtracks than this
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8.0
48396
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Like most everything they’ve released to date, this record deals in raw aggression, and then soothes the wound(s) with a lush blanket of cold wave
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8.0
48399
8.0 |
Pitchfork
Pop music is often considered to be synonymous with escapism, but it can also be cathartic
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7.8
48444
7.8 |
Bowlegs
III can be a stark, and at times, an uncomfortable listen – which is probably why it feels so essential right here right now
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7.5
48440
7.5 |
Pretty Much Amazing
(III) is worthwhile in that it is an interesting take on dance music, yet that doesn’t seem quite enough for a group predicated on delivering an onslaught of emotional energy
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7.5
48280
7.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
With III, Kath and Glass have refined their sound to a point of supreme clarity and confidence
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6.0
48282
6.0 |
The Skinny
Majestic goth-trance
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6.0
48355
6.0 |
Evening Standard
For the most part Crystal Castles remain an impenetrable fortress
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6.0
48479
6.0 |
musicOMH
III is a good Crystal Castles album. But given that II was a great Crystal Castles album, the trend isn't going the way that you'd hope
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6.0
48402
6.0 |
The Quietus
For every instance on III set to give the listener an aural acid bath, there are nearly as many that might induce a snooze on the bus, and a dribble on your neighbouring passenger’s shoulder
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6.0
49098
6.0 |
Mojo
An uncomfortable but absorbing trip. Print edition only
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6.0
49244
6.0 |
The Fly
A quantum leap it ain’t – and Glass could do with putting her fangs back in – but ‘(III)’ has just enough up its sleeve to keep Crystal Castles on track
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6.0
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6.0 |
State
These are broad themes as stark as the sleeve’s black and white design, no doubt, but themes attacked by Alice Glass and Ethan Kath with bruising, sickening intensity
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5.0
48977
5.0 |
Under The Radar
Any political message the band intends in III is lost under layers of digital dirt
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5.0
49279
5.0 |
Spin
Like its predecessors, III serves up synth-etic goth, but its fear of pop means less Siouxsie & the Banshees and more Christian Death
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5.0
48281
5.0 |
A.V. Club
An introverted album preoccupied with despair and cynicism
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4.0
48393
4.0 |
The Observer
Track after track leans heavily on the relentless four-to-the-floor of trance, with Alice Glass's yelped vocals muffled under a weight of sound that's simultaneously boring and abrasive
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