III is the first of Crystal Castles full-lengths to be produced entirely by Ethan Kath.
“We wanted the new album to sound like a completely different and new experience,” says Ethan Kath in an official statement “We'd limit ourselves to one take on each song because we believe the first take is the rawest expression of an idea."
By ditching their old synthesizers and keyboards used on I and II, Ethan enforced a “strictly no computers” rule in the studio and began recording everything directly to tape. Together the Canadian duo has conjured up a collection of songs that are as raw as they are well rounded. As III unfolds, each track will take you to greater heights and equal lows, as you enter the sometimes plagued, and often polarized world that is Crystal Castles.
Recorded mostly in Warsaw and Berlin, the highly anticipated III also boasts the haunting and euphoric 5-minute mind-bender ‘PLAGUE’, that quickly caused a cyber-storm amongst fans and media when the band unveiled it via their soundcloud earlier in 2012.