ALBUM REVIEWS

Kill The Captains
KILL THE CAPTAINS EP
EMBRACEABLE RECORDS 12.5.08
@www.vanguard-online.co.uk

 Belated review here of this excellent EP. Songs are choppy and the band somehow just sound very together. Like they’ve worked a lot and understand their place in the overall picture. They have the strength to break into Beefheart-ian statacco rhythms, speed up, slow down, without it sounding like it takes the band enormous concentration (though I’m sure it does). There are four very different tracks, a pop-punky opener, a left-of-centre piece of art rock in 12/8 time, a ballad and an extended closer. The closer betrays the band’s origins as a psychedelic jam band, stretching into a collective wig-out, showing they understand the importance of volume, distortion and squeezing every last bit of juice out of a riff.

Ross McGibbon

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