BEEHOOVER
Heavy Zooo
(Exile On Mainstream)
CAPSULE
Blue
(Robotic Empire)
TOTAL FUCKING
DESTRUCTION
Peace, Love
and Total Fucking
Destruction
(Enucleation)
ZOZOBRA / CLOUDS
Bird of Prey / We Are Above You
(Hydra Head)
LOS
LLAMARADA
Against the
Day
(Avant!)
CELESTINE
At the
Borders of Arcadia
(Milkweed)
LIKE BLACK HOLES IN
THE SKY
Tribute to Syd Barrett
(Dwell)
BEFORE THE RAIN
...One Day Less
(Major Label Industries)
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The
first few songs of Blue did nothing for me. I
was a bit letdown actually. Not because they were bad
nor because my expectations were set impossibly high,
but because my expectations were elsewhere. I had other
concepts pullulating my head, other ideas wondering off
around their sound. I don’t know what concepts to tell
you the truth, I just know that they were other concepts
than what I got. Plus, the first four songs come and go
so quickly one is left wondering off, with no clue as to
which direction his album is going. Adding up the length
of the four songs we barely get to the five minute mark
and adding up the number of notes tightly crammed into
each song would actually take too long. The idea is
there, a bit of desperate hardcore and especially in
“Symptom of Spectacle” hints of grind and the freedom of
noise rock are present. Good stuff, especially if you
have no preconceived expectations. But let Blue
settle in and you are in for an ever wilder ride.
“Determinal”
is perhaps the first track to open the field. Here Florida-based
Capsule declares that they abide by no rules. They are
nihilists, they are anarchists. They are a band in search of
their own sole truth and what you’ve known thus far about them
means zero. After one minute off their typical fanfare, the
track dies down a miserable guitar echo, then it drags on
through distortion, feedback and repetition for nearly eight
minutes. “Blue Green” embraces the same caustic principles, it
sounds impromptu. No coherent arrangements, only loose and
seemingly random notes faintly coloring an empty space. Blue
has such stark contrasts, on one hand Capsule are adept to
jam-pack notes in rapid fire fashion, and on the other they fuck
with ambience in such a delightful way. I am just surprised that
after all is said and done, Blue gels so perfectly.
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