Crystal Castles

Crystal Castles was an experimental electronic music duo from Toronto, Canada. It was made up of producer Ethan Kath and vocalist Alice Glass. The band has released three albums, all named Crystal Castles, in 2008, 2010, and 2012. Their first album made the NME list of the 50 greatest albums of the decade, placing at #39.

Crystal Castles
Crystal Castles performing in 2010
Background information
Origin	Toronto, Ontario, Canada[1][2][3][4][5]
Genres	Experimental, electronic, noise, Chiptune
Years active	2004–2017
Labels	Lies Records, Merok, Trouble Records, Lovepump, Fiction
Past member(s)	Ethan Kath Alice Glass
Website	crystalcastles.com

Break up and allegations

On October 24, 2017, Glass said that when she was in the band, Kath had abused her. Kath has denied this.^[6] On December 21, 2017, Toronto Police Service said there was an open Sex Crimes unit investigation on Kath.^[7] Glass and four other women would later say that Kath had sexually abused them when they were teenagers and he was in his twenties.^[8]

Glass said that she hated her time in the band and asked fans to not continue supporting it.^[9]

Members

• Ethan Kath – instruments, production (2003–2017)
• Alice Glass – vocals (2004–2014)

Additional live members:

• Christopher Chartrand – drums (2008–2017)

Former live members

Past spare live members:

• Cameron Findlay – drums (2007–2008, currently playing in Parallels)
• Mike Bell – drums (2008–2009, currently playing in Lymbyc Systym)
• "Yes" Tom Cullen – drums (February 2008, currently dj-ing as Yes!Tom)

Discography

• Crystal Castles (2008)
• Crystal Castles II (2010)
• Crystal Castles III (2012)
• Amnesty (I) (2016)

Videography

• "Magic Spells" (2008) (directed by Video Marsh)
• "Courtship Dating" (2008) (directed by Marc Pannozzo)
• "Celestica" (2010) (directed by Rob Hawkins)
• "Baptism" (2010) link (directed by Rob Hawkins)