Crystal Castles (studio album) by Crystal Castles
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Crystal Castles is ranked as the best album by Crystal Castles.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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70/100  | 08/27/2025 12:41 |  SomethingSpecial | | 81/100 |
75/100 | 08/14/2025 14:27 | cicadelic | | 73/100 |
75/100 | 07/23/2025 22:31 | davidbalo | | 76/100 |
65/100 | 06/30/2025 17:41 | ChadMiles | | 79/100 |
85/100 | 05/22/2025 01:48 |  ExTeaSea | | 83/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.6/100, a mean average of 75.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.6.
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I feel like Crystal Castles capitalized on the electro-pop/rock phase of the 2000s here. This is one of the albums that started my obsession with noisier music in general.
A strange album that forces its way in and out of pleasure for the listener.
Forever thankful for this album because it got me into electronic music. Personally to me it is one of those moments where you are like "Wow I didn't know music can sound like this". Objectively speaking, this album does have flaws and has some filler tracks mostly because CC just wanted to put out as much material as possible on their first big release. Still contains many classics and I always find myself going back to it.
Great bit of noise.
Best songs - Alice Practice and Black Panther (sounds like pokemon on acid)
SuedeSwede 10/08/2014 18:36
bye bye alice
Agree with Connor! And I don't get how some see it as pretentious?
Really enjoy listening to this. its fun and IMO underrated on this site.
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ShaneSpear 01/13/2012 08:29
It's not that bad. I managed to find some good tracks in here, like Magic Spells, Reckless, and the closer Tell Me What to Swallow. It's a shame that there weren't more songs like that closer because eventually a lot of those bleeps and bloops kind of blur together to where it's hard to separate one track from another with the exception of the songs that I listed.
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