FOR RESPECT

Items ordered by ending time | Showing all 5 items

Visit eBay search:'prog rock' for items
Sell your DON CABALLERO items on eBay !

No release results - showing artist results instead

Sort: Recent best-seller | Results cached

Visit Amazon tag:'Progressive Rock' for more prog rock

Muscular and bottom-heavy first album from the Pittsburgh mathies with drummer Damon Che firmly in command, a debut that brims with confidence and power. The guitars of Mike Banfield and Ian Williams provide intelligent and bold chord progressions that run between crushing metal and atonal inventions, Pat Morris' bass rounding off a range of calculated demolitions and carefully planned chaos. The Dons challenge, of that there is no doubt, not only in structure but texture and sonic limitations. But this debut is perhaps more listenable than their later releases and for that reason is an excellent intro for the virgin Don Cab fan, or those curious about this fascinating and forward-thinking style of progressive rock. The band tips its metallic hand as in 'New Laws' and angled munch-fest 'Rocco', Che absolutely shining, a drummer like no other currently in music-- a power to be respected and who leaves a mark on modern rock not unlike John Bonham did. 'Subdued Confections' shows the beginnings of their trademark sound and the voracious 'Our Caballero' devours us with beautiful chunks of machinery. 'Bears See Things Pretty Much the Way They Are' reminds of Metallica's complexities but with more of a taste for the abstract and implied, quick sketches that suggest and portray rather than blurt out their secret desires, a love of imperfect lines where flaws are relished and accidents strangely at home. One of the most important bands of the modern era, and For Respect is a great starter.

And so this epic tale of Math-Rock started. Don Caballero, mighty mafia godfather has helped this genre to gain prominence, might not by corrupting police officers, but by turning not so clever noise into something more complex, more enjoyable. Of course, through this record, there can be heard influences of Post-Rock, but ambient parts are very rare. Also, if we part this record on two halfs, then second half would be more subtle one, while first half is where most chaos lies (even the very last track Belted Sweater truly returns to noiseland. But it's organized chaos, calculated (as is tradition in Math Rock).

It's not flaw at all that all these tracks are instrumental (except Got a Mile, Got a Mile, Got an Inch which features some samples of TV programmes), actually I think it's (not tits, sorry for this pun, it was irresistible) far better this way.

4(+), for diversity, for not playing the same over and over again (these tracks are progressing forward) and for helping to set the genre.

And most importantly, for enjoyable record.

A great start.

Math Rock Gods Don Caballero hit the ground running with their debut For Respect. The first track quickly sets things in motion for what is to come. Damon Che really lits up the drumset on every track with robot like precission and a impeccable since of beat. The music really revolves around the drums, and not the guitars, as the guitars follow the lead of Damon's drums most of the time, or they set the pace of the track.

The music here is very intense and absolutely never boring. You can hear the Post Rock influence on the guitars on some songs, but this normally give way to something more complex, as in the track new Laws, which starts off almost dreamy like till towards the end it biols over with fast drumming and metaly guitar work.

A great start for one of the genres most important bands.