Cave was started in 2006, when four musicians called Cooper Crain, Dan Browning, Rex McMurry and Rotten Milk started playing/jamming in Chicago. Their passion for avant-garde composers and other more rock classical joined them and in 2008 they decided to release their first EP “Butthash b/w Machines and Muscles”. In view of the audience’s good response, that same year they launched their first album “Hunt Like Devil/Jamz“. Since then, their carrer has gone in crescendo… In a discreet crescendo, because it is pretty hard to find information about them. But that does not mean that they have not grown in profesionalism and success all around the world since their debut album.
Their style moves between kraut-rock (an experimental genre that came up in the late 60’s in Germany), drone (minimalist music style chacacterised by a group of notes repeated during a composition) and the classical rock/psychedelic genres. All is pure experimental, acid and explosive. It is unique because although this style of music is a dirty and blur one, their sound has some clean and pure overtones mixed with some others more dark and twisted. I was lucky enough to see them live this last weekend and I only have good words for their concert: they were such a pleasant surprise.
Their last album Neverendless is a gem of the experimental music: five tunes full of hypnotic synthesizer and guitar sounds, motorik style and narcotic and groovy rhythms. A delight for the more demanding ears. All the songs go in crescendo as their popularity does. So if you start listening to one of their themes, do it until it finishes.
They are so “underground” that I was not able to find their personal webpage (I guess they do not have one), but they do have MySpace and Facebook. So, if you like what you are going to hear now, do not forget to follow them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYAyIx7TZZY1
