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- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Alternative
- Label: Asthmatic Kitty Records / SC Distribution
Taking gothic country to new levels of weird
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We Say...
San Diego's Castanets — the brainchild of guitarist/vocalist Ray Raposa — play cold, swampy, apocalyptically-inclined Americana, all vocal creaks and e-bowed acoustic guitar. Signed to Sufjan Stevens' Asthmatic Kitty label in 2004, Castanets take gothic country to new levels of weird: "Cathedral 2 (Your Feet on the Floor Sounding like Rain)" layers Raposa's cold laments ("It's alright/ To want/ More than this") over a field of ping and drone. Ultimately, Raposa's groggy, stumbling narratives and molasses melodies are the sonic equivalent of trying to cram your key in your doorknob after a night of slurping pints, shivering in your doorway, teeth banging into each other, hands thick and unhelpful: it's disorienting, dark and strangely euphoric.
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Cathedral 2 (Your Feet On The Floor Sounding Like The Rain) |
3:13 |
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| 02. |
Just To Break Free From A Hundred Families |
0:34 |
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| 03. | |
Industry And Snow |
1:44 |
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| 04. | |
You Are The Blood |
4:09 |
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| 05. | |
No Light To Be Found (Fare Thee Weell Faith, The Faith Is Yours) |
6:29 |
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| 06. | |
Three Days, Four Nights |
4:50 |
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| 07. | |
As You Do |
2:53 |
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| 08. |
Cathedral 3 (Make Us New) |
0:31 |
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| 09. | |
The Smallest Bones |
2:46 |
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| 10. | |
We Are The Wreckage |
3:55 |
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| 11. | |
Cathedral 4 (The Unbreaking Branch And Song) |
2:22 |
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11 Total Tracks, 33:26 Total Length
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