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Crystal Castles Reveal Tracklist for 'III'

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by Chris MUG5 Maguire +, October 10th, 2012 and has been Read 679 times.
Last Edited by: Ffion Davies October 10th, 2012.

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Crystal Castles announced the release and title of their forthcoming album and we now can reveal the tracklisting to the band's third album (III). The band also made the first single from the album available for free download called Wrath of God with nearly 400K plays in little under two weeks.

The album will receive a global release on November 5^th and is the first of their full-lengths to be produced entirely by Ethan Kath.

(III) Tracklist:

01. Plague
02. Kerosene
03. Wrath of God
04. Affection
05. Pale Flesh
06. Sad Eyes
07. Insulin
08. Transgender
09. Violent Youth
10. Telepath
11. Mercenary
12. Child I Will Hurt You

"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."

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 page this summer.

The artwork for the forthcoming album is an award winning photograph taken by the photojournalist Samuel Arand and features Fatima al-Qaws cradling her son Zayed who is suffering from the effects of tear gas after participating in a street demonstration in Sanaa, Yemen.

Crystal Castles will be playing a select number of UK tour dates in November:

• 22/11 - Institute – Birmingham (Tickets)
• 23/11 - Norwich U.E.A. – Norwich (Tickets)
• 24/11 - O2 Academy Brixton – London (Tickets)
• 26/11 - O2 ABC - Glasgow
• 27/11 - O2 Academy – Leeds (Tickets)
• 28/11 - Manchester Academy – Manchester (Tickets)

(III) will be released worldwide on November 5th, album artwork below.