Crystal Castles Will Break Something Inside You

Sad Eyes, from Crystal Castles’ third album, does the thing their best tracks always do: it takes something that should be ugly—the blown-out production, Alice Glass’s voice processed into something barely human—and makes it feel like the most honest thing you’ve heard all week. There is a particular kind of late-night misery this music is built for. Not the dramatic kind, not crying-in-the-car kind, but the quiet ambient sort where you’re awake at two in the morning and everything feels slightly wrong and you’re not sure it was ever going to feel different. That’s where Sad Eyes lives. That’s where I tend to be when I put it on.