Artist Cave
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David Crunelle
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Cave
Chicago band Cave opened 2009’s Psychic Psummer with an exuberant burst of vocal wails and flailing drum fills, a nice contrast to the rather cool and aloof grooves it settles into with its psychedelic Krautrock. Granted, Cave’s more drawn-out jams are never slack doodles, but just patient explorations of obsessively repeated rhythms, guitar figures, and bubbly keyboards. Psummer’s best moments recall a slightly less volcanic version of Oneida, but the 2010 EP, Pure Moods, comes on more like a brisk sun shower, streaking its melodies across perky grooves and 13-minute builds. Cave thrives in those building, escalating moments just before the climax, best proven lately by lead track “WUJ,” from 2011’s Neverendless.
Updated 01/11/2012
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