She and producer Ethan Kath have always walked a very fine line between the raw mess of humanity and the sterility of machines, although here Kath turned away from their traditional computer-recording model and went straight to tape. Like most of her vocals, they've been manipulated and stretched to within an inch of obfuscation. “Light of God dimming weak/Nothing’s wrong, go back to sleep/Lost the will at infancy/Drown them in charity,” she sings on “Kerosene” over a skittering beat and the slow spreading of a flattened bass synth. It's a sense of malcontent returned to again and again throughout. “I didn't think I could lose faith in humanity any more than I already had, but after witnessing some things, it feels like the world is a dystopia where victims don't get justice and corruption prevails.” “A lot of bad things have happened to people close to me since (II) and it's profoundly influenced my writing as I've realized there will never be justice for them,” vocalist Alice Glass explained of the record prior to its release.
On their third full-length, Canadian duo Crystal Castles have drank deeper still from the well of discontent, resulting in 12 tracks that paint an even bleaker picture than their heretofore already grim worldview. Oppression, injustice, suffering-they all seem typical subject matter for a group whose sound has always been rooted in the paranoid apocalyptic.
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