Crystal Castles

Some of you indie musicophiles may have heard about this up and coming Toronto band. I read about them in NOW and they are increasingly being touted as the band of the future, or simply 'the future', despite not yet releasing an album. Apparently they are blazing a path through clubs and record stores, leaving orgies of chaos and dance in their wake.

Seems to me their whole bag is based on atari-age video-game blips and beeps and every possible fucked up noise that comes out of malfunctioning household electronics. I could make some rambling philosophical argument about how their post-modern music represents the obsession and decay of our electronic society but instead I want the music to speak to you.

First let me say that I have tried many but have not yet managed to listen to an entire song. I think I made it 2/3rds of the way through one and then I reached a higher level of consciousness: Crap is crap, anyway you splice it.

People can dance to just about anything. Even me, a half-jewish boy from the burbs, did the Dakar bounce. But why/how in the world do you want to dance to something.. something without melody, or substance? And what the fuck is with her altered voice? Is she so self-conscious to not expose her real one? If this is where music is going (imo dance-techno is a rising tide) then I'm definitely going to be one of those old fogies who 'just doesn't get it'.