Crystal Castles - I'm made of Chalk

[thatakwardsilence]

Sounds like a dolphin on drugs

[RicardoGomezHdz1]

fuck, i'ts saying my name.

[RochaRush]

This is what happens in pokemon when you press new game...

[lilithhateslilith]

scratching on a blackboard....

[imahnick]

I dont know why, but somehow, this song makes me think of the end of world, especially the clash of all the civilization of any man kinds or human being, we will all disappear. The repeating "reweaew" sound(i dont how to describe it, but i assume you know what i mean) is like we are all decomposing. When it comes to the nature, we're just nothing but some kind of organic substance, we all cant get away with the rule of the universe, the nature. When we die, we'll all decomposed like a chalk.

[Vanishedd100]

I imagine that this song is like a drowning. In the beginning you struggling to survive, but then gives up and gets carried away into the background.

[juansebastian093]

¡El universo hecho canción!

[0dookie0]

i wonder on what were they when made this song, 'cause i want that too!

[redmoon4eva]

sounds like fish music

[Classicre]

Musssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhh



[soozeevicious]

This is what everything sounds like after using 100% pure evil spice. Don't EVER try that...

[lostmonkyz]

lol such contrast between the top 2 comments. love the song

[shackafaggot]

I think this song it's like... it's kind of like that moment when you realize.. no wait... okay so pictures a tube- and put the universe into a tube, no no, no, a bag, picture a bag and picture the universe in and that bag and all of the sudden

[Quinton111100]

This makes me think of the Phantom of The Opera, as his whole place comes crashing down upon him

[freddysnackchips]

I think it would be fun to hang out with Crystal Castles for like a week being involved in touring with them. I am sure I would have to go to detox after though, lol.

[bjorkishful]

2:44 BETTER THAN A FUCKING BASS DROP MAN.

[Psychiatraz]

anal

[stradlemonkey444]

for me that moment was freeing- to look down on my body and truly realize that I exist not just in it but out of it and beyond. Can't put it into words.

[shackafaggot]

The two top comments are the most hilarious juxtaposition, omg.

[RooAcademy]

1:59 Mommy are you okay?

2:25 Ma? MOMMY!

2:39 Ma? MOMMY!

2:44 NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[SuperOlikat]

Nothing compares..

[jimmyjk08]

the best.

[Mainsoftt]

Soo surrealist!!, I liked it.

[SraXocolatl]

Sounds like when Pinoccio was thrown to the sea.

[BITCHyourdone]

Sounds like sperm squiggling to the egg. It reminds me of a baby alien too. LOLidk.

[Unkn0wnumb3rs]

So beautiful yet so dark, so alive yet so dead...

[ScreamTheRequiem]

Oh my god. I wish I could download this forever into my soul.

[ElvenNights1]

purity is ambient.

[myproductions8D]

This is just too fucking perfect

[sadface88]

i consider this one of their most powerful songs....

*dolphin giggles and swims away*

[deykdark]

Someone is Killing an Alien XD

[liamwazhere]

I hear a song with a lot of cool noise

[40silvastar]

Life is fragile, like chalk, that's what I see from this song

[Psychiatraz]

Alice <3

[Rogosuki]

This song is beautiful and at the same time disturbing... I'm seriously confused

[LaCrazyLion]

this song strums my heart strings.

[amodifying]

background music of a prophesy

[HandMadeSpider]

13 DIAS AHHHHHHHHH

[spanishair]

vem ni mim SWUUUUUUUUUUUUUU O/O/O/O/

[pescolinha]

@spanishair Bah, sorte sua poder ir no SWU. :/

[TheSlavesoftheworld]

This song is one of the saddest songs ever made :/

[AttackAdrianAttack]

soo kreppy, i love it <3

[lalalalalalalalalajt]

I LOVE THIS SONG , ONE OF MY FAVORITES

[salsa4dayz]

it sounds like some alien love language <3

[csantos16]

What comes to mind: Someone who's lost in their own mind after the fallout- finally aware of the wall that seemed so beautiful, comfortable. But that wall isn't as flexible getting out as it was going in. No, no.

Now, trapped in self-mutilation, there is no way out. Realization kicks in for the tortured, that harm is a present constant; not a misstep made in the past.

[gmensah2008]

this feels swimming in a pool made of a gazillions of memories, images and thought bubbles... eerie and so beautiful.

[hayleysneer92]

I don't know what it is, but I like it. A lot.

[mrbanker80]

@hayleysneer92 its like strobe. o.O but better..

[redcommando1]

it sounds like my belly after a chicken vindaloo.

[MeLySaLy]

This is art, there are people who can not appreciate the beauty of this genre of music created by Crystal Castles! I'm a fan of Crystal Castles and I love to be CC forever!

[zombiecubo]

this should be in a horror movie soundtrack

[cocoa9270]

sounds like a swarm of bees atacking dolphind in the deginning

[underdasamesky]

just like spore talking :D

[LukaHomme]

For me, this song is about capturing those last few moments before you die. Everything is a jumbled mess - you're terrified but have an odd sense of serenity. Your mind, your identity... everything you ever were is dissolving away and all you can do it accept it. You can fight it all you want, but in the end we're all just dust. We're all just chalk.

The album is a piece about life and death, and all the emotions inbetween. It's so raw and engaging. I wish everyone could see how beautiful it is

[Al3xtec]

@LukaHomme :D thanks i now have a new appreciation to this album

[MrOcskai]

@LukaHomme very well said but the motion-picturesque "we're all just dust.. we're all just chalk" thing was a bit fuckin' gay.

[twototwo1]

@LukaHomme or you do your music when your trippin

[Mainsoftt]

@LukaHomme You are right man....

[SpankMyPlatypus]

@LukaHomme That comment made this song for me. For a split second, I could feel myself dying. I felt the panicked frenzy to grasp onto anything and everything I could possibly preserve. There was so much adrenaline, so much fear, but then everything was calm and I felt a sense of peace. It had to be one of the longest seconds of my life, but also one of the most enlightening.

[EggsAndBacon44]

@LukaHomme I think you have an outstanding ability to read that deeply into a song that sounds like it's been made using a £90 Yamaha keyboard.

[chokolate999]

@LukaHomme Yeah for some reason i felt that pretty strong around 2:40-the end... ._.

[Sternertime]

@LukaHomme personally i feel like this song and album are about less then that. But really good music has a way of going past the subjective form its in and "becoming" whats on your mind. Personally I'd say this album is about trying to find love, in the wasteland, but realizing your place instead. this song to me is like saying, fuck, im made of chalk, everything i touch/write on/interact with will have my ugly, white mark. But i cant break away

[snowfert]

@LukaHomme well put my friend. well fucking put.

[RichieY0Rampage]

this makes me this of a pink little space octopus that's lost and needs help finding its way back home (:

[slqpok]

1:40 i need a link to this picture he looks beautiful here...  or,give me links to all the pictures!!! amazing video!!!

[LittleCell09]

If you like this, also check out M83 - "My Own Strange Path"

[slantmaster]

I've always imagined that this is a song about mermaids drowning and being attacked by supershark creature things. Beneath that, it's a love story- at the end you hear some weird sounds and that's a mermaid calling out for it's slain lover, trying to save it, but it can't....and at the very end when the sounds stop, it's just that being sinking to the bottom of the ocean, watching their lover be ripped to shreds as they drown and sink the bottom.

[AdolfHipster666]

so at the beginning, a group of aliens are beating up another alien, and they accidentally kill him. 0:24 is the funeral, and everyone's crying and weeping quietly. and they keep going up to the body and checking to see if he's alive somehow, and they get angry and yell because he wont move. and then at 2:44, they're lowering the dead alien into the ground, and his family starts screaming out of grief and they don't want to let go.

an excellent song.

[GermanPeoplePerson]

@AdolfHipster666 that is the most incredible story i dont even

[Chloey23]

@AdolfHipster666 That's really sad T_T

[Roxanna8294]

Alice is so hot. I'd totally go lez for her

[Hadouken65]

The top comments are so pretentious. Crystal Castles are my favorite band, they make great music. THE END.

All of those "ooohhhh they're soooo sonically progressive and not just in a sonic way but in an existentially decrepit/tangibly sarcastic/effervescently pedantic and marmarmaarrrmar comments are lol worthy. 

[MrOcskai]

@Hadouken65 well said

[GermanPeoplePerson]

it feels like.. finding peace through.. waves of chaos

[iorn999]

this shit hurts my ears at the begining

[MachiriReviews]

The intro: A strange alien creature being chased by a savage race of humanoids.

The rest of the song: The creature screaming for help as it dies silently in the night.

[HamstersTakeOver]

@MachiriReviews Dude that's what I think when I hear this song. But in the beginning it reminds me of some weird reptilian creature being betrayed/deceived. And after 0:24 on, it's like the creature keeps asking "Why?" and at 2:44 the creature goes insane.

[MachiriReviews]

@HamstersTakeOver This song makes you think...

[roboticdentures]

this song sounds like death, scary and unknown it's incredible but so sad at the same time.

[KelseyBeePink]

I will never be able to listen to this song without crying.

[ojr777]

reminds me when i got abducted by aliens

[KelseyBeePink]

There, there, Shamu. Don't cry...

[sadface88]

it sounds like a dolphin trying to talk like a human :3

anyway, this is awesome!

[sackmajik]

For me, this sounds like some creature from out there somewhere...and it meets a human for the first time, and obviously in the beginning is scared and crazy. But then it wants to talk and communicate, and it's a sweet ending. :)

[sertronasora]

slowly turning into dust.....

[spookygothu]

That is my Niece playing with her toys

[sushiyamagato]

Oh My Magic...

[midocrimsonfate]

The beginning makes me feel so strange,like how I feel in dreams of mine.

[iluvmusic77ify]

sounds like dyeing aliens and dinosaurs.....????? who kares its DIFFERENT!!!!

[fonzz21]

the beginning park is sortaa fuckingg scaryy..the second part calms me downn..

[lumberjoseph]

this is by far the most tragic song I've ever heard. The only thing I can think of is some sort of innocence being destroyed. anyone else?

[Brandonfreakk]

This can't be good for my headphones...

[erikarz09]

DOLPHINS!

[Billitrance]

Was listening to this at about 3 am last night in bed on my ipod. Gotta say, i was a lil creeped out

[Brandonfreakk]

@Billitrance really? it just make me a little horney...

[richscooby510]

this is my first time listening to cc and ive been listening to them for the last hour or so and i realizes that some one should do a mashup of cc and the deftones. I'm a huge deftone fan and i love them for their lyrics and eerie music, just like cc.

[somerhild]

Sounds like little sea creatures being born <3

[nswick1]

Death of a program.

[ShiorixDeidaraUn]

I don't see what's so wrong about the intro. I like it . ; u ; ♥

[podisracer]

gotta love those green eyes at the end!

[gljivko]

Sounds like first 20 seconds you're trying to get any sense out of melody and then suddenly it takes you to a blissful world out of problems.

[MrKraiola]

*Clicks on Not in Love, this song plays*

Oh shit! my earphones are fucked up!

*I am made of chalk*

Oh, that's why.

[maestroxzero]

Reminds me of the the feeling of some NIN songs.

[LaStylo15]

all the sounds in the world drifting into nothingness

[PAKlSTANl]

Its like an old sega video game when played wirelessly and signals getting deteriorating

[BoomBangRiot]

This song has so much emotion.

[punk1rock2]

Psychedelic!

[Mimo1991]

It sounds like the end of something, or a faint goodbye, I mean it is the last song of the album lol, but the music remains questionable and interesting. Maybe it's about transitioning to one mind level to the next? This is why I love music, especially these guys.

[MexicanPunkJackass]

To me it sounds like something bad happened. Then she starts screaming and crying in emotion. Like someone you cared about just might die... but then that's just me.

[banans21]

Starfucker's 'Miss You'?

[MexicanPunkJackass]

Where can I Download THIS?

[Captain5337]

@MexicanPunkJackass Download Utorrent and then go to the pirate bay.o r g and start getting free music :)

[MexicanPunkJackass]

@Captain5337 Eh Thanx, but I found where I could download the whole Album :P

[Captain5337]

@MexicanPunkJackass on that site you can download whole albums

[MexicanPunkJackass]

@Captain5337 Oh haha I used something else

[xVhincex]

Sounds disturbing

[porcupinewhisperer]

It sounds like a giraffe gurgling mouthwash- Priceless tune

[MrOcskai]

@TheSuperFeminist Where do you buy your acid? sounds like it's bomb.

[TheSuperFeminist]

This song makes me think of a person, not a baby, but just an ageless person, who is inside a uterus drowing inside the amniotic fluid, and as i hear this person drowning, i watch the life of this person starting at the person's birth and ending as I can finally see the person drowing.

[rebelliousAZN]

0:24 - 0:33 = dat tongue. UNF.

[Cozmagoth17]

I want to have sex with Alice Glass

[tay187garcia]

@Cozmagoth17 hell fuckin yeah. she has DSL's

[Cozmagoth17]

@tay187garcia Word man She can suck on me ne time with those DSL's lol :)

[darkillias]

I feel like this piece, those sounds are almost eating my insides... Pure heaven...

[GameShutxx]

the intro sounds pretty fucked up like it doesn't make sense, like some guy broke into some kids studio and started pressing buttons all over the fucking place. Putting cables, where there aren't supposed to be. Using broken synthesizers. But the thing is, thats the wonderful part of music. It looks like it didn't need music threoy, but fuck that. Rules are supposed to be broken. Make music how you like. Don't limit yourself to much? Does this make sense? Hello?

[PiotrFerdinand]

@GameShutxx I loved this band before their last album, it completely went out of "trash" genre and turned into crankwave usually seen on most of indie type musicians. I don't like it anymore, i'll be forever in love with the first version of baptism & black panther.

[SporadicTroll]

@PiotrFerdinand yes but it was something easy to see that they will degenerate,then just pick up some glorious tracks and the experimental noise is just pure shit

[Thelightingeffects]

@GameShutxx your so right, im so tired of musicians being so formula reliant, it makes the real geniuses like this stand out.

[xVhincex]

intro is totally disturbing

[JoseMB13]

Alice has really beautiful eyes 3:06

[abbycrombie1397]

I think the message in this is that life is fragile, like chalk.

[nezalrock]

song like near of the death

[TheFriZZstyle]

several dollars lost and especially our trip! not London! no concert! -really-disappointed

:(((((((

[Edwiness]

2:02 - Are you okay?!?!?

[panicoteto]

<3

[666XkrmaX666]

why im crying??? it is bad?? it is sad?? i dont understand.... my tears.. my heart.. my soul.!

[Moonblade128]

@666XkrmaX666

I can imagine this is what you hear when you're dying and all your memories of laughing and yelling are being erased.

Sound a bit like dolphins as well :P

[joepearcee]

this song made me cry.

[corisgay]

@joepearcee made me rather sad too m8

[corisgay]

@joepearcee made me rather sad too 

[casstiana]

Crystal Castles.. please come to Buffalo, NY!!!!

[nicotinelolipop]

@casstiana YESSS!!! Buffalo needs them!!!

[thelargge]

For those who are not just into music but into sound as a form of superior art as well, this is it. this is heaven and hell, pure bliss. I don't care were the sound comes from. I don't care how many people it takes to do it. I dont care if it just takes to push one buton. My ears care for the sound itself. Probably one of the best pieces in 2010 if not the best.

[Massakre8492nd]

if you listen carfefuly you can hear "is he okay? is he alright?" is this a song about accident?

[iloveyouDeee]

@Massakre8492nd all i know is this is epic

[Massakre8492nd]

@iloveyouDeee hell yeah it is! CC rules!

[laru09]

@Massakre8492nd I guess, I think is about a death, i think the title comes from the police when they draw the shape of a dead body in the floor

[Massakre8492nd]

@laru09 thank you! i wasn't sure about what the title refers too, thank you!

[corisgay]

@Massakre8492nd thats what i was thinking too , sounds like possibly drowning

[ersatz02]

the picture at 1:03 is amazing

[TheLanternsOutt]

i hear these disgusting, adorable creatures in a cave filled with crystals and light with no source.

[Dancrof80s]

im a big fan of cc's distorted sounds and lyrics. but this is just a tad overboard. but ill download it anyway.

[iloveyouDeee]

@Dancrof80s i respect your personal opinion but this song is epic

[Dancrof80s]

@iloveyouDeee my opinion has changed.. i left that comment a while ago. lol

[Directorbbz]

They call this music?

[skiptotheparties]

@Directorbbz playa hatinnnn

[SetiRabbit]

Aliens...

[PiotrFerdinand]

Already have the LP and just made the video.

[leonxxx12]

@PiotrFerdinand share!! :]

[316124]

where the hell did you get this??