Castanets: First Light's Freeze - COMPACT DISCS

Title: First Light's Freeze
Artist: Castanets
Label: Asthmatic Kitty
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 656605898223
Genre: Indie Rock/Pop
Release Date: 2005-10-11
Number of Discs: 1

Castanets return with a dark, mutant-country sound infused with strands of free-jazz and a late-70's Nashville big-radio strut hijacked by post-punk unravelers. The result is a beautiful mix of somber reflection, destination-unknown travelogue, and subversive anti-war boogie. While "Cathedral" explored the themes of domesticity and the architecture of conflict, "Freeze" confronts the mythology of war and friendship. The story resembles an ancient documentary on relationships, the close proximity of things painful and pleasurable, and the complications of this as a paradigm for the world.

Tracks:
1.1 (The Waves Are Rolling Beneath Your Skin)
1.2 Into the Night
1.3 Song Is Not the Song of the World
1.4 Good Friend, Yr Hunger
1.5 (We Drew Uncertain Breath)
1.6 Bells Aloud
1.7 First Light's Freeze
1.8 Evidence (A Mask of Horizon, Distortion of Form)
1.9 No Voice Was Raised
1.10 (Migration Concentric)
1.11 All That I Know to Have Changed in You
1.12 Dancing with Someone (Privilege of Everything)
1.13 Reflecting in the Angles