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The Castle of Togetherness
Self-titled CDR EP
Self-released
Genres: indie rock, experimental pop
July 18 - 24 2005 |
This EP comes from a relatively obscure band (from the nether regions
of who-knows-where?) who play a dreary sort of pseudo-pop. A
dark organ submerges these seven songs, with acoustic guitar and
decidedly off-key singing coming through from the depths. This has a
nice, creepy atmosphere to it, but the music itself isn't much to get
excited about. There isn't a successful melody in sight, and the
strange singing is too atonal to win any brownie points. As a result,
this only really works as a moodpiece - and while it accomplishes
that, that isn't enough to hold the listener's attention for the
entire EP. For The Castle of Togetherness to be successful,
they're going to need to really rethink their vocal strategy. As well,
some songwriting elements will need to be modified - better melodies
are required. The folky "Spanish Blues" proves that they
have some talent (though it suffers from poor vox and bland
songwriting), and the whole organ thing is really effective, but this
EP needs some considerable changes if it's ever going to be taken
seriously.
55%
Matt Shimmer [Vitals:
7 tracks, distributed by the
band, released 2005] |
