http://www.fensepost.com/main/2009/11/03/capybara-try-brother-album-review/ THE indie music blog Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:51:47 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.fensepost.com/main/2009/11/03/capybara-try-brother-album-review/comment-page-1/#comment-55804 Capybara – Try Brother :: indie shuffle Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:40:32 +0000 http://www.fensepost.com/main/?p=7198#comment-55804 [...] What’s so good? I’m tempted to conclude that banjos are the “coolest” thing to include in your lineup these days. But that’s misleading. Rather, it’s more appropriate to say that some good old-fashioned multi-instrumentalism is in fashion. Take Capybara, for example: these four guys quit their respective jobs in Brooklyn and Portland to cram into a van and travel through the deserts of New Mexico and up the coast of California. They packed xylophones, pianos, drums, etc. etc. etc. The result? A kickass mish-mash of folk-rock, folk-pop, indie-pop, you name it. As the instrumentation grows to include trumpets and banjos, and as the band expands into falsetto-meets-baritone vocal harmonies, and as synth lines weave intricate melodies completely unique in the realm of folk, Try Brother becomes something else entirely – a conceptual album of experimental music with folk leanings that is truly par none – Fencepost [...] [...] What’s so good? I’m tempted to conclude that banjos are the “coolest” thing to include in your lineup these days. But that’s misleading. Rather, it’s more appropriate to say that some good old-fashioned multi-instrumentalism is in fashion. Take Capybara, for example: these four guys quit their respective jobs in Brooklyn and Portland to cram into a van and travel through the deserts of New Mexico and up the coast of California. They packed xylophones, pianos, drums, etc. etc. etc. The result? A kickass mish-mash of folk-rock, folk-pop, indie-pop, you name it. As the instrumentation grows to include trumpets and banjos, and as the band expands into falsetto-meets-baritone vocal harmonies, and as synth lines weave intricate melodies completely unique in the realm of folk, Try Brother becomes something else entirely – a conceptual album of experimental music with folk leanings that is truly par none – Fencepost [...]

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