Apparently best described as "encapsulating the sonic blend of Jack Kerouac's contagious zest for life and Yves Klein's wild and reckless attempts of jumping out of windows," Cameran are probably closer to a severe mix of the art-noise of early ââ¬Â¦Trail of Dead, Sonic Youth et al, and the irreverently hushed, thunderously deafening post-rock of the Mogwai of old. Moments of reflection mix with perplexed drumming and controlled explosions of almost punk-fury and blend with the Conrad Keely school of vocal work to create a noise that can be both cheerless and humorous.
Opening with the guitar blasts of "The Zombie Walk," a song that falls deliberately into the trap of dramatic tension meets deafening guitars and harsh drum rolls, the listener is thrown into a world of straight-up alt-rock that lasts the duration of the first three songs. "Headphone Music OP 001," with its accordion and violin lines muses towards a quieter and more inhuman sound that isn't too far from bordering on Czech folk music. From there on in, through the yells of pain in "The Listening Test," akin to The Icarus Line's Mono, and "Hideko", that carries the ââ¬Â¦Trail of Dead influences through some verses that could have come out of a CapDown song, A Caesarean shows itself as a blistering rock album. Shattered by the piano-driven, instrumental quietness of "Tu es Monono?" a much more suitable closer than the quiet-loud resurgence rock of the lame and predictable "A Million Years Now".
A Caesarean is a piece of alt-rock that has been done slightly better by others and that has a tendency to, occasionally, sit uncomfortably on the wrong side of post-hardcore. Slightly over reliant on ââ¬Â¦Trail of Dead, both for sonic influence and audience, it has, nonetheless, enough intrinsic substance to stand away from the ambiguity prevalent in the bands that play to the same influences. Overly serious at times and almost self-deriding at others, A Caesarean shows itself to be a solid, if not defining, piece of post-rock fury, sans the pretensions that seem so prevalent in many contemporaries.
