Crystal Castles - Pap Smear

They put you to use or put you to sleep.

Album: Crystal Castles II [2nd album]
Genre: EDM, 
Album Release: April 23rd 2010
Length: 3.43
Producer: Ethan Kath
Vocalist: Alice Glass [age 21]
Songwriters: Ethan Kath & Alice Glass
Label: Fiction Records

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• A pap smear is a test used to identify cervical cancer in women.
  
  
• 'Pap Smear', the song, sounds like it was taken from the groups debut record, which was less melodic and more abrasive than their follow-up. It's features talking to her aborted baby, "You never got to bloom, they cut you from the stem You're innocent at birth." She continues, "an embryo or a planted seed."
  
  It's this darker lyrical content and distorted, disorientating sound that separates Crysal Castles as distinct from more mainstream EDM.
  
  

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