With the arrival of 2009's Divided by Night, electronic music pioneers The Crystal Method have dropped their masterpiece. Bolstered by the innovation, flexibility and craftsmanship that made the duo of Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland club culture icons, the pair's fourth studio effort is easily its most inventive and accomplished to date. Launched with the momentous first single "Drown in the Now," The Crystal Method's infectious collaboration with mic master Matisyahu makes a unique and memorable musi...   [ read more ]

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Method men Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland have angled for the mainstream with each of their full-length releases, so it's good to see a mix album from them. It's doubly good, too, when they call on quality breaks brethren from overseas -- Plump DJs, Koma & Bones, ILS, Dylan Rhymes, Hybrid -- for productions. Just like any quality dance mix worth its salt, Community Service starts out a bit slow, but begins cranking it up by track five, with the Plump DJs' remix of Orbital's {&"...   [ read more ]

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Perhaps it's unfair to label the Crystal Method as an American Chemical Brothers, since they are contemporaries of, not successors to, the English duo, but the comparison makes sense. Like the Chemicals, the Crystal Method is into big beats. There isn't much subtlety to their music, but there doesn't need to be, since their heady fusion of classic, late-'80s hip-hop, rave, techno, and rock is intoxicating on its own. Vegas, the duo's debut album, rushes by in a quasi-psychedelic ...   [ read more ]

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