Crystal Castles - Xxzxcuzx Me
Crystal Castles is an electronic/experimental duo hailing from Toronto, Canada. If I didn’t know better, I would have sworn that they came from New York City. They practically embody the “hispter” look that has become so popular nowdays in NY. Hooded sweatshirt, leather jacket, tight jeans, a dirty of pair of chucks, a shirt of questionable cleanliness, and a look that says, “We’re too cool to fuck with people like you.” Even though the look has been done over time and time again, it seems to fit CC particularly well.
Anyway, I first came across CC when I downloaded a mixtape off the net. Initially, I was a bit hesitant about them, since their music came off as a typical blend of video game samples, voice distortions, synthesizers galore, and abstract lyrics, but there was something about them that made me give them a chance, so I wind up buying their album and fell in love with it. Their beats are infectious and creative, sometimes making you want to dance, other times making you want to grab the nearest lamp and throw it against the wall in a fever of excitement. One of my favorite tracks by them is XxzxcuzX Me coming off their self-titled debut album. It’s less than two minutes of kickass goodness. Enjoy.
We can insist on having robots
Bugs and insects
Useless
Leave me for dead
How can you love?
Program the head
We get so demonstrated
Nuts and bolts for granted
Lie like a dog
Now it’s just wires
Full of promise
Robotic love
I’m programmed to rust
AIDS robot is clad in iron bolts
Robot grunts have bled each other
They wanna play with my placenta
All we have is dirty weather
Someone push the button
I know we’re just disease
A bloody cyst
What will you live,
What will you die for?
Protect the cure in me
Baby I know
We’ll celebrate the fucking rain
Just because we don’t feel flesh
Doesn’t mean we don’t fear death-moises
