
All of the Crystal Castles comparisons that Hearts Revolution garners can only be justified to a certain point. Sure, they're both boy-girl, electroclash, 8-bit sounding duos, but that's about as far as the similarities go. Crystal Castles pounds out soul-impairing, apocalypse jams with (I think) lyrics like, "Robot grunts have bled each other/they wanna play with my placenta," while Hearts Revolution rides around in an ice cream truck selling candy, singing about "Foxes and bunnies/fire and snow." "Ultraviolence" is a darker political track, but singer Lo's voice, even when screaming, has a hard time forcing out the furry woodland creatures that are bumping around in there somewhere. [Pitchfork]
Hearts Revolution make Crystal Castles seem like the Christ-like Messiahs of Music everyone proclaims they are. I'm looking for Crystal Castles demos, please post some.
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People love to compare The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. It's really so silly to me. If you like something then like it. If you don't then don't. Why do people insist on trying to convince others that one thing is better than the other. Does cheddar make a better grilled cheese rather than American cheese. Who cares. It's one thing to critique a work and point out it's triumphs and faults, but trying to compare Crystal Castles to Heartsrevolution is really quite dumb. Some days I listen to Crystal Castles...other days Heartsrevolution. I could compare reading "Blahs" comment to watching info-mercials, but it's obvious that they are ultimately the same...a total waste of time.
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