‘A beautiful, subtle record’ – NME

‘A masterwork of haunting, unsettling otherworldliness’ – Filter

“Crystal Castles are back, and it's beautifully terrifying” – SPIN Magazine

New Single ‘Sad Eyes’ was premiered on BBC RADIO 1 on November 7 and was dubbed the ‘Hottest Record on The Planet’ by Zane Lowe.

Crystal Castles III has been feature album all week on BBC Radio 1.

"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.

"Oppression is a theme, in general… A lot of bad things have happened to people close to me since II and it's profoundly influenced my writing as I've realised there will never be justice for them," explains Alice "I didn't think I could lose faith in humanity any more than I already had, but after witnessing some things, it feels like the world is a dystopia where victims don't get justice and corruption prevails.”

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.

Since then, Ethan and Alice have been surprising fans across Europe by randomly dropping exclusive tracks from (III) into their live-set, revealing yet another layer of (III) to the world.

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 Australian tour dates this summer:

Jan 15 – The Studio – Auckland

Jan 17 – The HiFi – Sydney

Jan 18 – Big Day Out – Sydney

Jan 20 – Big Day Out – Gold Coast

Jan 22 – Billboard – Melbourne

Jan 25 – Big Day Out – Adelaide

Jan 26 – Big Day Out – Melbourne

Jan 28 – Big Day Out – Perth

(III) is out now