Crystal Castles @Roseland
With Kontravoid
Crystal Castles played at the Roseland Wednesday night along with Kontravoid. The night was one of the most enjoyable and the most frustrating I’ve been to in recent y 2000 ears.
Kontravoid, the solo project of Cam Findlay of Parallels and the former drummer for Crystal Castles, played next. His deep detached vocals layer just over repeating synths is deeply creepy in the best way possible. Kontravoid creates heavy industrial music Unfortunately his set was very short, I wish it was longer it was difficult to get a real sense of his range and style as musician.
After a long intermission, which featured what felt like the entire discography of the Wu-Tang Clan, Crystal Castles came on stage. The crowd couldn’t have been more ready. Alice Glass’s vocals rose high and struggled to compete with the drowning bass, which from my spot next to the speakers could be felt in my throat. Glass was into every moment of the show, rolling on stage, stage diving the audience, and many times during the show she ran down to the audience playing in front of them at different spots. “Crimewave” and “Untrust Us” were both performed beautifully.
This show was one of the most difficult concerts I’ve had to shoot in a long time. Health jammed behind a laptop drenched in dark blue light, Kontravoid could not even be seen except in hazy flashes of the strobe, which bounced off of thick fog, and Crystal Castles writhed on the floor also bathed in smoke and wild light. For all three bands the experience of the music was not about actually seeing them play it but to feel them playing, beats vibrating through you.
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Gorgeous photos! Wow, makes me want to be there.
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Gorgeous photos! Wow, makes me want to be there.