Caracara - New Preoccupations (March 25, 2022) Album • Page 8

Love to waste two whole paragraphs talking about genres like anyone gives a fuck

 

Also

 

A picture of why scores don’t matter haha. 7.6 isn’t bad but you’d never know that based on the write up. Whatever Evan was going for there did not work

 

Pitchfork writing has been subpar for too long for me to care the review is poorly written, just glad they got the exposure and a decent score

 

Read my review instead

 

It was verifiably good

 

Which one is yours? Could you paste me a link? ;D

Lots of different bands come to mind, obviously Pianos Become The Teeth, Moving Mountains, but sometimes also Balance & Composure, but for sure I haven't thought about Matchbox 20 hmm.

 

Also, I listened to "Colorglut" a lot, seeing as I had also checked it out as a single (breaking my promise not to listen to any more songs then the two previous ones). I really like lyrics that reference specific things, events, or culture etc. - yesterday I dived into new Camp Cope a little bit more (I think I listened to it 3 or 4 times already, but I listened to new Kevin Devine a few times and to "New Preoccupations" like really A LOT), and it was cool to get through the lyrics and stumble upon a song that also mentions Volvo hahh.

How many singers write about a Volvo vehicle specifically? Then there's two albums released on the very same day that mention the car.

EDIT: Camp Cope included it in "Love Like You Do" if anyone would like to check it out too.

 

Welcome. As suggested earlier in this thread, your homework when you're done is to go backwards starting with the "Better EP".

 

Yeah, the 90's alt/pop-rock influence is definitely there and jumped out to me, I even get some Counting Crows at times, but I think it adds to the charm. So much of that music and those bands are unfairly maligned.

 

namedropping now thats what i call music comes off as insulting, but as someone who was raised on matchbox 20 and goo goo dolls because my parents were obsessed i dont think that point of reference is bad and again i namedropped gin blossoms earlier who may have more cred than some other bands from that era these days but were overplayed on the radio just as much during the time, but theyre fantastic. but again those were the same comparisons being drawn to moving mountains s/t album so we're really just going in circles here from my perspective lol.

 

just listened to "better" for the first time since last fall when i first heard it. this band is my new favorite obsession, theyve really ignited something a new band hasnt come along and made me feel in a really long time. especially not a band as small and scrappy as they are or at least were because yeah this new album is a huge level up that they deserve to have take them to new places. i need to listen to their first album more but the better EP feels like a clear turning point similar to when pianos become the teeth put out "hiding"

 

I hear a 90s influence as well but not nearly as hard as that review makes it seem. there's also a bit of post rock on this album that is getting ignored in this review. Also, I feel like the closest thing this lines up with for me is Pianos Become the Teeth type of indie rock (Keep you, WFL era).

Side note: I think new Pinegrove leans more into that territory than this does, and it was literally pressed by Rough Trade.

 

This is the one

Album Review: Caracara – 'New Preoccupations' - The Alternative

 

AOTY, vinyl ordered

 

Oh yeah, I think it's a perfect example with "Hiding" by PBTT! On the other hand I wasn't downplaying any of the 90's music references of course ;D just don't think it's that big to rely whole first paragraph of a review on that - didn't feel.

Thanks for the link! and yeah, it is so much better as for writing and everything!

 

Yeah i mean it makes much more sense to talk about the more immediate bands they’re pulling from - JEW, movmou, Copeland, Lydia, but pitchfork isn’t gonna name drop any of those lol besides maybe JEW but again they didnt

 

Yeah the Pitchfork review was kinda weird but I’m glad they got a good score and exposure. I’m great friends with the drummer Sean, he was nice enough to record some vibraphones for a song on our album we’ve been mixing. Amazing drummer too.

 

Sean Goat

 

Listening to this on the bus ride home from my psychiatrists office. Such an easy record to lose yourself in I was listening to it while out and about yesterday after my therapy session just walking around center city. Yet I also reach for it when it’s just me and my cat at the apartment and I just wanna hide from the world. It’s one of those records that I’m gonna use for any environment.

 

I remember playing your favorite song
Hoping you’d hum along
The rattle of the radio rumbles loud
Take a sip and drown it out
Crumpled pile of cans by the creek, a gravesite marks thе night
Here lies oldеr empires collapsed in a heap and prose too plain to write

I remember driving down broken roads
Your peeling skin exposed
AC broken, saw you sweating through your clothes
There’s places only we can go
But you were always watching from one side of mirrored glass
Think fast like cigarettes out of highway windows, galaxies collapse

So much closer to where I started than where I thought I’d be
You bring the smile, I’ll bring the teeth
Devour me
When did we become so halfhearted? A concrete field of reeds
You bring the smile, I’ll bring the teeth
Devour me





^^^^^ why am I crying on public transit rn

 

This is def a top 3 lyric moment on the album. So god damn visceral.

 

Goat stuff

 

that song reminds me a lot of seasonal by movmou with its big huge finish that ramps up the pace from the rest of the song

 

Subbing so I remember to check this out