Crystal Castles

If you've been paying attention, Crystal Castles are making the blips on everyone's lips. In the short time they've been around, Crystal Castles have made some of the most infectious, dancefloor-murdering songs of this young millennium. Midas-touched producer and multi-instrumentalist Ethin makes the beats, while Alice sings, shrieks and squeaks along, making for seriously unforgettable electronic pop which lulls and abrades, turn by turn. Ethin and Alice come from Toronto, a city whose yupscum image belies the duo's somewhat gutter-fied roots. When they're not making music, they're dealing with cockroach infestation and wrestling crackhead vagrants who wander randomly into their building lobbies. Really. When they're on the job, they're having to explain for the umpteenth time that they are named after She-Ra's crib, not the video game. We repeat, they are not named after the video game.