...or at least until we get overly excited and change our minds before the week is out.

Greetings fans and acolytes, we trust you are well.

Anyhoo...

This morning on the way to work (i.e. work for The Littlest Hobo is generally a day spent befriending then helping a hapless but well meaning Canadian family with some sort of moral injustice, resulting in them falling in love with me to the extent that they convince the reluctant father into keeping me as a family pet...only for me to enigmatically fuck off to the tune of an inappropriately cheery soundtrack), i listened to the following on my iPodog:

'Learn to Speak French'...useful self-improvement which could come in handy for any Hobo Adventures in neighbouring Quebec.

This led me onto...

Daft Punk - 'Alive 1997' and Alive '2007'...i was there...see the post below. You really can't go wrong with groovy French robots at 6am.

And ultimately...

Crystal Castles...WHO WE HEREBY NAME AS BAND OF THE WEEK! Cue the fanfare, Cap'n Schmoo.

Remember the sound your Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k used to make as it loaded a game? Yeah? Well, add some fuzzy beats and a dash of indecipherable girly shouting and that's pretty much Crystal Castles' M.O. in a fruitandnutshell.

Bonkers, but brill.

We first came across the two-piece in about 2006 on the Digital Penetration Compilation. An album that showcased early Klaxons, The Presets and New Young Pony Club, to name a few. NB: the second volume is out now and is even more mentaler(ererer).

But back then Crystal Castles got nary a mention in any reviews of the album. Even i, Hobo, must confess to not giving them the due props when i reviewed the album for a popular internet-based music mag.

But with a name cadged from the She-Ra cartoon, CC's new eponymously titled album is a stonking headfuck of a listen.

Ethan, responsible for the bands Atari-style bloops n bleeps, must be a continent-sized insomniac if, as they they say, this is the music he hears in his head

And 'Singer' Alice Glass is not only a flailing electrorave banshee but hot as hell too. Almost makes me wish i was homosapien. God she'd get it Humany Style off me. Woof!

Start with one of the more 'conventional' tracks, such as 'Courtship Dating' to easing yourself into the frentic, blippy, static-electric fuzz of the likes of 'Alice Practice'.

Despite Crystal Castles being grumpy fucks and quite possibly compulsive liars they're definitely worth checking out dudes.

The Littlest Hobo and Captain Schmoo x