AFFECTION CRYSTAL CASTLES LYRICS FULL

Considering your dark view of the future, would you consider having kids? Should anyone have kids?ĪG: No one should say whether others should breed or not, that would go against how I feel a woman has the right to choose. Pitchfork: There are many lyrics on the album that deal with the idea of a 'first born' and infants. I will always think of the church as an institution and not a comfort. I have resentment for being forced to believe in something. I don't believe in transmigration or anything like that.

Pitchfork: Did you grow up with religion at all? What's your overall relationship with religion now?ĪG: I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic school until junior high. Some see regression, some see liberation. Pitchfork: Considering the album's cover photo- which shows a Yemeni woman consoling her son, who was exposed to tear gas- as well as a song like 'Sad Eyes'- which seems to be about the effects of Muslim burkas upon those who wear them- do you feel like people should respect burkas as a religious tradition or are they always an oppressive tool?ĪG: Burkas represent different things to different people. The average age for trafficking minors in America is 12-14.Īddressing the issues is the first step. There are over 12.3 million victims of human trafficking for sex slavery, and less then 1% have been identified. Fifty-four percent of rapes will remain unreported to the police, and 97% of rapists will serve no jail time. Older white men dictate women's right of choice- there were 604 abortion and reproductive provisions at state level as of June 1. Two thirds of lobotomies are done on women. An average American woman will get ripped off $431,360 in her career for not being a man. In America, women still average 77 cents to every man's dollar. Native American women are two-and-a-half times more likely to be victimized, but no one from the House Republicans voted in favor of the Violence Against Women Act that would have protected undocumented immigrants, Native Americans, and LGBT women.Īfrican women are responsible for 75% of agricultural work and never see fair pay. Sixty-six percent of countries have no laws to protect women from domestic abuse, and battery is the largest cause of injury to women in America. Two-thirds of the world's illiterate are women. Pitchfork: In your opinion, what are some of the worst forms of oppression in today's society? How can we positively combat them?Īlice Glass: The worst involve exploitation of children, preying on vulnerability, denying others the right to live safely, and denying people of their right to education. And, as Glass explained to us over email, her words are even scarier because they're all based on real-life injustices happening right now around the world. On 'Insulin', between claustrophobic bass hits, she cries: 'Your first born will be accosted/ Fill their lungs with tar and sage/ Make the stem cells act their age.' Her message is unrelenting as it depicts a dystopia filled with disease, hypocrisy, and bride burnings- it makes The Matrix look like 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'. Her overall outlook, as you might guess from her dying-animal delivery, is quite bleak.

AFFECTION CRYSTAL CASTLES LYRICS FULL

On new album (III) - which you can listen to in full below, via Spotify- Glass' lyrics attack various forms of oppression: religious, societal, governmental. And they're important to Crystal Castles. They don't think of the words coming out of Glass' mouth- probably because nearly all of them are distorted beyond recognition. When most think of Crystal Castles, they think of the Canadian duo's riotous, strobe-strewn live shows, or frontwoman Alice Glass' manic yelps, or producer Ethan Kath's paranoid synth static.

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