Throughout the first half of the raucous 90-minute set Crystal Castles delivered last night in front a half-full House of Blues, the group appeared to be having technical difficulties. Given that everything about the band’s electronic music involves the use of high tech electronic gear, technical problems can really throw a wrench into the operation. To be honest, though, the band’s noisy approach makes it difficult to tell when something is actually going wrong — the music is a sonic stew that sounds like the band’s mixed Cocteau Twins dream pop with Sleigh Bells-inspired punk and noise pop. In fact, there was so much distortion on singer Alice Glass’s vocals that her actual words were often hard to discern.
This article appears in May 1-7, 2013.
No! I was there. You didn’t mention the mosh pit. Despite ‘technical’ difficulties the performance was good and the whole night resulted in a awesome experience. Half of the crowd was intoxicated so I’m sure they did not mind tech difficulties. I know I didn’t. I do agree with the performance of “not in love” it was quite outstanding. Oh, I was disappointed when they just walke off stage .. I mean she spot Hennessy on the crowd and the next thing you know the lights shut off and you see Ethan Kath leaving stage. I cant forget to mention that I grabbed Alice’s ass when she was crowd surfing (: