Alice Glass has revealed that the title of her forthcoming album is a nod to her former band Crystal Castles.Glass was speaking to NME for last week’s Big Read and reflected on her time leaving Crystal Castles after the release of their third album ‘III’.Three years after that in 2014, Glass released a statement about bandmate Ethan Kath, alleging that she’d been physically, sexually, and psychologically abused by her former bandmate.
Kath has consistently denied the allegations.“Leaving Crystal Castles was the single most difficult decision I’ve ever made — that band was everything to me,” she wrote at the time. “My music, my performances and my fans were all I had in the world.
I gave that up and started over not because I wanted to but because I had to.“As difficult as it was, I knew that leaving was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
It has taken me years to recover from enduring almost a decade of abuse, manipulation and psychological control. I am still recovering.” Kath responded with his own statement: “I am outraged and hurt by the recent statements made by Alice about me and our prior relationship.
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