Caspian – The Four Trees
The Boston based band Caspian is set to release their second album The Four Trees on April 10th. I’ll admit I hadn’t heard much from Caspian before this. I had seen many positive reviews about them spread across the good ‘ol Internet, but never really bothered to take a long hard listen to them because they fall into one of the most hit or miss genre’s for me, post-rock. It’s frustrating to wade through all of the imitators and average groups that try their hand at it. But anyway, I’ve listened to their latest upcoming effort, and I must say I am pretty damn impressed by this. Not just sort of impressed, but truly taken by this album. It’s that good.
At first it would be easy to compare these guys to Explosions in the Sky or any number of the main post-rock giants. However, Caspian do manage to set themselves apart from these bands and form their own identity. If they were having trouble before, then I am almost positive that The Four Trees will land them their own gigantic dot on the instrumental post-rock map. It’s an amazingly beautiful album. While this may not be a big deal to others out there, I dig the really low end bass that a lot of the songs seem to have. It definitely gives the album an extra punch that makes the heavier portions of it that much more effective and crunching. There is never a moment where The Four Trees feels like its dragging. It’s pretty nice how the band has set up the album with some shorter interludes here and there, as opposed to dragging out songs that could potentially get boring. It lets their overall sound seem larger and more captivating that way. Oddly enough though, the longest song on the album is one of the most amazing tracks off the album.
Caspian – Moksha [MP3]
For those that are already big fans of post-rock, then there is really no excuse to not own The Four Trees. And even for those that aren’t big fans of the genre, I still highly recommend this as it’s just a really nicely executed album that sounds just absolutely beautiful at times. Again, it’ll be out April 10th but it can be pre-ordered over at Dopamine Records up until I think March 27th. With that you get a free poster and you don’t have to pay any shipping costs if you live in the US. So yeah, that’s a pretty swell deal, so definitely take advantage of that. Enjoy!
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