Editorial Reviews
Fahrenheit
"[Castanets will] spirit you off to other plains of deconstructionist country rock existence."
Product Description
Cathedral, the first nationally released album by San Diego’s Castanets, introduces a unique new voice in avant-country. The core of the Castanets is the lyrical and musical talent of Raymond Raposa. From somber love ballads to haunted tales of frustrated redemption, the delivery is potent and devoid of cliché or sentimentalism. Echoes of The Velvet Underground, No Neck Blues Band and delta blues harness a strain of ancient Americana that even today pulses through a subdivided and paved landscape; the result is what Raposa calls "derailed country psychedelia." Backed by the enchanting angelic voice of newcomer Bridgit DeCook and recorded mostly in a secluded cabin in the northern California woodlands, Cathedral illuminates architecture where faith and doubt clash in an often-ambiguous search for the divine.
Cathedral,Castanets,Asthmatic Kitty,Indie Rock,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop
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