Topaz Rags have finally dropped their debut full length for Not Not Fun Records. Full of the old ghostly comforts of Pocahaunted and book-ended with sharp insomniac riffs, Capricorn Born Again is one of the most seductively pessimistic albums of the year, with limping off-kilter jazz tempos dragging purgatory lounge ballads through the afterhours With label veterans Britt & Amanda behind the wheel, they create a natural assimilation from their previous band experiences. Take Robedoor’s misanthropic sludge and dump it all over Best Coast’s swooning melodies, keep the warm tape crackle, but add a touch of morose blues, skeletal piano noodling, and a druggy pulse, that’s what your in for. Eight tracks compiled “via a complex 4-track/boombox assemblage method,” for your degenerate pleasure, into what is one of the most articulate, and stylistically concise outings from this Golden State experimental community ever. Prediction: In 2010 Not Not Fun will consolidate itself into one massive supergroup and create a psychedelic magnum opus, here is a taste of it.
Capricorn Born Again is available now through Not Not Fun.
For Fans Of: Pigeons, Pocahaunted, Wet Hair
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Topaz Rags – Darker Sooner
Topaz Rags – Slow Gin Fizz
