Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating

Dismissed as another scenester band, people should cut Crystal Castles some slack. Believe it or not, at times they do have some good tunes under their neon-belts, such as Courtship Dating. It's freak-electro-punk for the not-so faint hearted - just think The Gossip if they slowed-down the pace and tried their hands at writing a film score for a futuristic horror movie.

A silicon symphony of two halves; melodic synths and not-so-heavy beats then clash with singer Alice, who sounds like a cyborg Karen-O forcing her tinkered-with robotic vocals over spastic glitches, skittish sound effects and weird background noise (that comprises of heavy breathing and the screams of freaked-out souls - sometimes it's the little things that can make all the difference).

Although much more interesting than the peers in the 'nu-indie-disco-rave' group they've been dumped in, Crystal Castles do risk sounding "too now" - will anybody be listening in 6 months time?