Band : Caddywhompus
Album : Remainder
Release Year : 2010
Genre : Mathrock / Noiserock / Experimental
Tracklist:
01. Let The Water Hit The Floor
02. Big Fun
03. Guilt
04. Balloon Knot
05. At Bay
06. Golden
07. Congo Half-Mask
08. Same Difference
It had to happen, honestly; with guitarist/vocalist Chris Rehm and drummer Sean Hart’s previous “main band,” The Riff Tiffs, apparently going the way of the dodo, what started out as a side project to occupy time while away at college has morphed into a real-deal band, in the process drawing in some of the old Riff Tiffs sound.
Not that that’s a
bad thing, mind, but it pulls Caddywhompus further down the slide toward all-out psych-rock, something I’d been a little wary of seeing. To the band’s credit, though, they still manage to inhabit some kind of middle ground.
The songs on
Remainder are sneaky, devious bastards, at first lulling you into thinking that they’ll follow at least some sort of standard structure, maybe even resembling the whole verse-chorus-verse-chorus-break thing…and then somebody dumps gasoline on the fire, and everything explodes.
The best way I can get a handle on
Remainder, in the end, is to view it as a
thinking person’s noisy pop album: it’s chaotic and spastic and requires a hell of a lot of your attention, but if you can give it, it’s well worth holding on for the ride.
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