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Artist:
CASTANETS, THE
Title:
Cathedral
Label:
ASTHMATIC KITTY
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.50
Catalog #:
AKR 011CD
"
Cathedral
, the first nationally released album by San Diego's Castanets, introduces a unique new voice of avant-country. From somber love ballads to haunted tales of frustrated redemption,
Cathedral
illuminates architecture where faith and doubt clash in an often ambiguous search for the divine."
Artist:
CASTANETS, THE
Title:
First Light's Freeze
Label:
ASTHMATIC KITTY
Format:
LP
Price:
$13.50
Catalog #:
AKR 016LP
"With
First Light's Freeze
, Castanets return with a dark mutant-country sound infused with strands of free-jazz and a late-seventies Nashville big-radio strut hijacked by post-post-punk unravelers. The result is a beautiful mix of somber reflection, destination-unknown travelogue, and subversive anti-war boogie. Castanets' unrelenting creative pioneering delightfully befuddles, as they simultaneously honor and dismantle 'New Americana.' While
Cathedral
(Castanets' debut) explored the themes of domesticity and the architecture of conflict,
First Light's Freeze
confronts the mythology of war and friendship. Morphed from a strictly literal and chronological song-cycle to a more broadly sketched reading, the wraith of narrative structure still lurks in the shadows, creating an eerie tale with shifting perspectives and evading resolution. The story ends up resembling an ancient documentary on relationships (others loved, feared, distrusted yet needed), the close proximity of things painful and pleasurable, and the complications of this as a paradigm for the world."
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