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Think mounting sweeps of noise interjected with melodic undercurrents,
then add in long segments built up to soundscapes, glasses breaking in the
background, simple twanged out guitar phrases pushed forward insistently to the breaking point,
intros of military drum cadences, a layered
string drone, rumbling low-end, the sound of one string being tapped to
near-silence, then a rush back into chaos. Think of all of that and you're
thinking of City of Caterpillar.
The debut self-titled full length recording from City of Caterpillar
clocks in at around 44 minutes, and it does everything mentioned and more.
But, strangely enough, this is a hardcore album, so mixed in
with all those quasi-orchestral elements are the traditional panicked
rushes and cries that are commonplace with hardcore. Formed with
members of Pg. 99 and Darkest Hour, City of Caterpillar could be described as
screamy and hard (without the more demanding vocals of those bands),
but they do so much more than that, extending their shorter, more aggressive
sections into meditative sonic excursions. Oh - and sampled wind chimes,
they have some of those on this record too. Killer.
Reviewed by James Hoey
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