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September 17, 2004
Whenever We Want
PAS/CAL - What Happened to The Sands
Casimer Pascal has such a jubilant and, I don't know, coy voice (n.b. that is not something one guy should ever say about another, probably), that it makes PAS/CAL's songs just rapturously fun. Eschatologically effing cool, etc. You get the picture. Reminiscent of Belle and Sebastian only tangentially (PAS/CAL are much more straightforward, in my opinion), they definitely belong in the Twee-Lite section of Camera Obscura, Kingsbury Manx, and oh, let's say, Sodastream. 'What Happened to the Sands?' is pure mainlined force-nostalgia, and nevermind the reference to Old Vegas or whatever, this reminds me more than anything of standing over the Sutro Baths ruins outside of San Francisco. If you haven't seen it before, the Sutro Baths are amazing, and, like a lot of abandoned things (See the Tim Hecker post for more of me waxing emo about this), they possess an almost indelible sense of attendant melancholy. Ahem, anyway. The melody on this is virally catchy, and it will burrow into several portions of your cerebellum/medulla ob. And that's always fun. You can buy the Oh Honey, We're Ridiculous EP straight from the band, and listen to it until it friction-melts into your CD player. Hopefully by then they'll have finished up recording that debut LP.
Posted by matt at September 17, 2004 08:00 AM
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Sutro Baths are sad and glorious! The secular equivalent of Tintern Abbey. Which reminds me, I have photos for you.
Posted by: Sean at September 26, 2004 04:30 PM