Caustic Casanova – Glass Enclosed Nerve Center

 

 

Caustic Casanova – Glass Enclosed Nerve Center
Magnetic Eye Records – 2022
Rock, Punk, Psych, Stoner, Prog
Rated: ****

Remember October? That month, already so long ago… Championed by many great albums, one of them soaring high among all you crazies in the heavy underground was the new Caustic Casanova album. Glass Enclosed Nerve Center is their fifth album and goes the way of punk and psych, garage, stoner and prog. The four form Washington DC give you five highly varied tracks, but all of them carry that wild and kind of weird nervous energy with them. Offering their take on exciting and riveting rock. Opener Anubis Rex might be the easiest song for the listener to fall in love with, with a nineties takes on alternative rock, that punk spirit and all delivered with something catchy and poppy. Majestic, pure flowing bass work and electrifying guitars. The dual vocals of bassist Francis Beringer and drummer Stefanie Zaenker give it this screeching harmony, which fit their pitch and the lyrics perfectly. Following track Lodestar goes big in the style of rhythms and time signatures, giving you in their shortest track of the album an incredible adventurous and highly unpredictable, almost manic love story for prog and punk. After which two tracks follow before you get to twenty-two minute long closing punk prog opera extraordinaire Bull Moose Against The Sky, which defies all the genre labels you already had trouble pinning on them to begin with. For some strange reason it brought memories of screaming Home, Home On The Range during wild night on a rooftop somewhere in a city in the south of the Netherlands. Wanting my buddies to join in; but they didn’t even know the song. So they were just screaming something else, something about tsunamis and dogs that had died. Anyway, weird memories on this strange morning, where we listen to an acapella opening of the Bull Moose Against The Sky track. What follows is not just a song, but a story, a musical, a wild tale that would fit perfectly in a theatre. Absurd? Probably, but so is the song, in scope, scale and ability to take you with it to a different place and time… Glass Enclosed Nerve Center took some time to land, to really come to grips with it… But once it grips, it won’t let go, and will encase you and all of your nerves…

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Thanks to Caustic Casanova….

(Written by JK)

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