People Who Live In Crystal Castles… / Torontoist

“…This conclusion is unusual, because it takes only a very short amount of research to find that two of the tracks from Crystal Castles listed above—”Mother Knows Best” and “Loving and Caring”—feature unapproved samples and are commercially available.”

I’m posting about this article before my Film Friday because, well, it’s important enough to stand up on its own. As this is my own blog I can state that on one level, this article is as much about my personal feeling that if you’re going to write “journalism on the internet” you should hold yourself to as high a standard as possible, as it is about how Crystal Castles should really admit and apologise for all that they’ve been up to in public rather than just put out more misinformation.

The basic fact is the Pitchfork article that this article is a response to is gob-smackingly bad. It takes maybe ten seconds of research to learn that the conclusion they draw is completely incorrect, and in fact, they’re actually proven wrong by at least one of the articles that they link to!

Some folks I have talked to put this down to an undercurrent of “well these chiptunes artists don’t really matter and Crystal Castles says everything is peachy so let’s just believe them!” Which is pretty likely, I guess. And makes it even worse.

Sigh.

(Oh, and special thanks to David Topping for working with me at length on this article, polishing it up into the tip-top hard journalism it is now.)

June 25th, 2008 : Features, Torontoist