Crystal Castles - Air War

Album: Crystal Castles [debut album]
Genre:EDM, Witch House, Bitpop
Album Release: March 18th 2008
Single Release: December 17th 2007
Length: 3.43
Producer: Ethan Kath
Vocalist: Alice Glass
Songwriters: Ethan Kath
Label: Last Gang Records, Lies Records

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Spotify: Over 11 million
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• The main loop sounds like an 8 bit sample taken from an '80s computer and when juxtaposed with darker synths creates an EDM that's more primal, as if it connects to a deeper facet of the music, but is also has an innocence that comes with youth. Thinking about it this way, it reflects it's creators, Alice Glass, the young runaway who feld a strict Catholic school and the older, darker Ethan Kath.
  
  
• Contains samples from Yukio Kaneoka - Walking (1981) and Nihon Bussan Co. Ltd - Crazy Climber Soundtrack (1980)
• There are early versions from 2006.
• The vocals are so heavily processed they can be easily missed. They practically work as another instrument, as opposed to a traditional lead.
  
  

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