Crystal Castles
by Crystal Castles

Crystal Castles by Crystal Castles
Year: 2008
Release date: 2008-03-18
Overall rank: 1,169th   
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 364 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 2008 (12th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (176th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,169th)

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Crystal Castles is ranked as the best album by Crystal Castles.

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Crystal Castles track list

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Crystal Castles rankings

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Overall rank: 1,169th | 2000s rank: 176th | 2008 rank: 12th

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Crystal Castles ratings

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77/100 (from 364 votes)
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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 76.5/100, 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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From 12/21/2019 22:02 | #245874
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.
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75/100
From 11/16/2017 03:30 | #201415
A strange album that forces its way in and out of pleasure for the listener.
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95/100
From 05/12/2016 03:48 | #165786
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.
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75/100
From 07/16/2015 18:34 | #145863
Great bit of noise.
Best songs - Alice Practice and Black Panther (sounds like pokemon on acid)
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From 10/08/2014 18:36 | #123739
bye bye alice
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From 02/14/2013 00:07 | #65008
Really enjoy listening to this. its fun and IMO underrated on this site.
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85/100
From 06/27/2012 23:55 | #45456
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70/100
From 01/13/2012 08:29 | #35126
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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From 07/26/2011 02:31 | #24857
I love this album. It is a great pick me up any time of day for any activity. Especially love it driving, loud with the windows down
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From 02/21/2009 18:24 | #2744
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