Alice Practice

Alice Practice

Crystal Castles

Historically the first true Crystal Castles song. The vocals are allegedly derived from a warmup exercise Alice performed in the studio (hence “Alice Practice”), that Ethan later built a song around.

In a statement made by Glass in 2017, she suggested this story was simply made up by Kath:

While recording our first EP, the recording engineer sexually harassed me while we were in the studio. Claudio laughed at me and pressured me to go along with it. He called our first single “Alice Practice” and said my vocals were a mic test. He concocted that story and told press it was an “accidental” recording, intentionally diminishing my role in its creation. It was another way of putting me down and preying on my insecurities.