◇ image via WikipediaCrystal Castles
Crystal Castles is a Synth-pop act. Their sound grew out of Uffie, CFCF, The Horrors, Hollowphonic and The Little Ones. Those roots explain a lot about how Crystal Castles arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Snow Strippers, You Love Her, Salem, Arca and IC3PEAK, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into LSDXOXO, The Big Pink, Destroy Lonely, Snow Strippers and Crim3s, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 31 connections around Crystal Castles, reaching back through Uffie and forward to LSDXOXO. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Crystal Castles connections
Crystal Castles grew out of Uffie, CFCF, The Horrors and Hollowphonic, shares an orbit with Snow Strippers, You Love Her, Salem and Arca, went on to shape LSDXOXO, The Big Pink, Destroy Lonely and Snow Strippers. 31 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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