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Artist:	CAVE
Title:	Pure Moods
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	DC 431EP

"Crusty - foul, upper crusty. What's poking through? Ah yes, the collective middle finger. But wait. There it is, for all to see - that middle finger is sporting the peace-iest mood ring this side of the '70s. It's a warm mood -- PURE, even. Yes, Pure Moods -- the sound of Cave, the five-fingered CAVE to be exact, the quintet version of the band that toured the USA and Europe in 2009. Pure Moods was recorded in semi-written, semi-improvised fashion following the annihilation of mainland Europe last fall. Afternoon sessions faded into the night and tripped into morning, songs coalescing, jams extending, beer bellies expanding. Fine-tuned, clean guitar amps grew crunchier and crunchier the longer their tubes burned, increasing tonal density accordingly as mass pushed volume. Cave throbs as an entity. They core themselves around sickeningly tight drum and bass that drive like a thinline, curvy, armored-vehicle so that the sinewy, metaphysical guitar-work can punctuate, aggressive yet deceptively seamless, through any fleshy surface -- be it human, water, or a wall of 'Hot Bricks,' the first nug on this here EP. All is surrounded by a glistening force-field of lake-misty keys and synths, like an unfurling cloak set to shroud and envelope a grungy beard or sixty. Hark! The group-chant vocals are singing -- 'Teenager,' with its comeslither refrain, cuts through the before-mentioned mist and tickles the scrote (or the cute little six-pack space, if you got tits) between the delayed echoes of guitar. Hair-raising, if nothing else; of course, we know it's probably not the only thing this track will raise."

Artist:	CAVE
Title:	Neverendless
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 472CD

"Welcome to Neverendless! You're all on Cave time now. This long player is the band's first recording as a four-piece. As a result, Neverendless is more concise than any other CAVE record, despite clocking in at over 40 neverendless minutes. With only four designated inputters, we hear a thicker, denser sound with the shop light burning bright on all those nuances. Thus, clarity ensues! And this new and neverendless focus achieves what Cave has been doing all along anyway: inviting the listener to vibe with them. 'WUJ' could be an acronym, it could phonetic, it could be ignorant overturism -- who knows and, frankly, who cares. We don't title these songs ourselves -- that went out a long time ago -- but if we did, we probably would have called "This Is the Best" just that. It's a mystery why Cave chose this title -- we don't talk with them like that -- but that's just the way that song makes us feel. It's the best almost-fifteen minutes in rock today. Up until now, music from Cave has appeared on CAVE Tapes, Permanent, Important, Static Caravan, Trensmat and Drag City. Naturally."

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