★★★★★
The Crystal Method have been around for fucking ever (the early '90s) but the beauty of being in an electronic outfit is that it is acceptable to change your stripes every few years as the dance music zeitgeist shifts so you can remain relevant and not become a heritage act. Emulator, the opening track to the Las Vegas two-pieces eighth album is a banger. The title may be a self-effacing hat-tip to heavy bass house artists like Harvard Bass and Deadmau5 who the track clearly references...
- www.beat.com.au
2014-03-04
★★★★★
Tweet All Aboard This album plays like a strange train ride. It's all build up at first- the excitement you have once you get on board and take your seat and you feel ready for wherever you're going. It evokes those feelings that the near future will be either incredible or catastrophic. The pace and intensity pick up, slow down and make the necessary stops. Then it's off again, with Casey Jones at the helm, hell-bent on getting to the destination...
- www.mxdwn.com
2014-02-13
★★★★★
Only two tracks into , the lifeless, trashy "Over It" sounds a death knell. Though it's fortunately the worst song on the album by far, it's telling of how far the American breakbeat duo has fallen. No longer content (or possibly able) to make ravey, earth-shattering breaks, The Crystal Method has resorted to formulaic EDM tropes, as evidenced by the boring wobbles of the song's straight-ahead brostep...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-01-16
★★★★★
Two decades before the United States draped itself in an EDM blanket, The Crystal Method's Scott Kirkland and Ken D. Jordan self-drew the blueprint for a viable electronic dance music model and built themselves into an exemplar prototype. Now that the rest of the continent has caught up with the duo, The Crystal Method releases its self-titled fifth album, replete with high-wattage guests like LeAnn Rimes and The Voice finalist Dia Frampton (of Meg And Dia) plus collaborations with flashy...
- www.avclub.com
2014-01-14
★★★★★
Resuming a successful formula now without the surprise of Vegas, Tweekend is a resolutely more rock album that stands out for its hybridization of musical genres. Looking at the rapid evolution of electronic music since Vegas, clearly The Crystal Method did not take many risks, preferring to tread in known waters rather than to clear new musical ground. However the duo takes a more urban direction with Tweekend by distilling its electronic music with rock and hip-hop influences...
- www.plume-noire.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Dust off your glow-in-the-dark binky and buy stock in Red Bull, because The Crystal Method is back with a new album that boasts enough big, block-rocking beats to fuel an airplane-hanger-sized rave. The Method men follow up 2004's successful "Legion of Boom," which received a Grammy nomination in the new Best Electronic/Dance Album category, with the second installment of their ongoing break-beat series...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
God knows what the Method thought they were doing here, or whom they were doing it for. Not that Crystal Method have ever been the bleeding edge of any edge you'd care to mention. But at least they once had a clever knack for populist techno floor pounders. It all starts out okay, a super-sequenced mantra-driven body shaker followed by the requisite heavy-rock-meets-techno affair...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
I reviewed The Crystal Method's 'Legion of boom' when it came out earlier in the year, and from hardly knowing anything about them, it safe to say I was quite impressed. So when the DVD landed firmly on my lap, I was actually quite happy to review it , even looking forward to it! Now, myself, I don't think I'd ever buy a DVD of a band, Most are just a gimmick, a way of squeezing extra cash out of the poor besotted fan. I expected more from this and got less. In short, this is a joke...
- www.music-news.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
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- spin.com
2010-08-25
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