SNESpop was never meant to last. Sometime in the past couple of years, a host of acts were all gaily attaching a Gameboy to an amp and relaying snippets of late 90s videogames trying to drum up some sort of substance. Then, in 2008 Crystal Castles released the best effort of the lot but it still wasn't the genre defining moment that might've been.
Now, two years later, comes what should have been. Crystal Castles latest offering distils the Sega Mega-fi sound into punching, driving loops, which relentlessly accompany even the poppiest of overtones. It isn't typical of this blog to delve into conventional record reviews but, I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting this. Celestica has been all over the blogosphere for a few weeks now, but the obvious club hit will surely be Baptism. And, probably, all the others too.
Crystal Castles : Baptism
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