The Crystalline Effect is an Australian electronic/techno/EBM/trip-hop duo consisting of Elenor Rayner (vocals) and Pete Crane (music). The project was founded in 2002 and they’ve been making music ever since. Their music tends to be incredibly beautiful, while the lyrics range from philosophical to romantic, and sometimes a mix of both.
See also Shiv-r.
Discography:
- Glass (2003)
- Blurred Edges (EP, 2006)
- Hypothermia (EP, 2007)
- Identity (2008)
- Ada Makes The Machines Sing (single, 2011)
- Industrial Re-Evolution (EP, 2011)
One time in tropes...
- Anti-Love Song: "At 6 O’Clock", "Jagged Edges", "When You're Asleep
" - Break the Cutie: "Another Rainy Day"
- Break Up Song: "Poetry", "Do Not Open", "Nothing Warms This Room"
- Broken Bird: "Another Rainy Day", "Poetry"
- Digital Piracy Is Evil: Justified in that when the Do Not Open EP got leaked, it was downloaded thousands of times. The EP was cancelled and replaced with Hypothermia, half the next album (previously called Hypothermia) was scrapped, and it was renamed Identity. The band really can't afford what they lose to illegal downloading.
- Domestic Abuse: It's heavily implied that the protagonist of "Another Rainy Day" is in an abusive relationship which she refuses to leave.
- And possibly the protagonist of "Do Not Open".
- Electronic Music
- Instrumentals: "Anechoic Lock". Instrumental versions of "Core Reaction" and "As Long As You Need" were released on Ada Makes The Machines Sing.
- Lyrical Dissonance: "Why Do I Hate Myself", "How I Get Out", "Life Has Failed You"
- New Sound Album: Well, New Sound EP. Industrial Re-Evolution is incredibly different from Identity, sounding like industrial (given that Pete spent quite a lot of the time between 2008 and 2011 as part of Shiv-r, an industrial duo, this makes sense) whereas Identity was mainly slow and soft electronic music.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: To whoever leaked Do Not Open: Really good job there, dude.
- Non-Appearing Title: "Anechoic Lock"
- Real Life Writes the Plot: See Digital Piracy Is Evil.
- Room Full of Crazy: It's mentioned in "Poetry" that 'she keeps words all over the walls'.
- Sanity Slippage Song: "Blue Sea", "Hypothermia" (possibly)
- Silly Love Songs: "Ialundra"
- Singing Simlish: "When The World Ends"
- Single Stanza Song: "Five Ways To Run"
- Word Salad Lyrics: The lyrics are sometimes incomprehensible, swinging wildly around from one subject to the next, not that it matters.
