Capillary Action
Fragments
Pangaea Recordings (2004)
I've heard that people who review music are failed musicians. This is not the case with Capillary Action, whose composer/music maker/sometime music critic Jonathan Pfeffer is known to masturbate frequently while listening to The Fucking Champs, Pinback, Thelonious Monk and The Red Light Sting. Pfeffer's ejaculation from these sessions created Fragments, a ten song affair between jazz, metal, ambience, rock, and other forms of experimentation. It'd be hard to find someone who couldn't enjoy at least one song on Fragments. The only downfall to that is Fragments covers so many bases that it's almost too much all over the place without a congruent theme to hold everything together. But for those who are sick of all the hype bands like Arcade Fire and Franz Ferdinand getting the spotlight when they aren't doing anything new, and for those with eclectic tastes in music, Fragments will be your new favorite album. Like any other album, Fragments begins with the first track. Because there isn't any singing (besides a few samples and"vocal"seizures?), the story or theme to be told begins with "Ticking Ghosts Pt. 1" and its lulling guitar riff that invites any spectator to come closer. Seven seconds later the train we're … Read more
Joanna Newsom
The Milk-Eyed Mender
Drag City (2004)
The Milk-Eyed Mender came out in March and has been gathering press clips like a two-ton goliath going berzerk at … Read more
Bones Brigade
Focused
Fight Fire With Fire (2004)
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