After hearing their widely-circulated demo it has seemed like almost everyone (myself included) was chomping at the bit for a full-length from the Algernon Cadwallader. So now that these Philly boys have delivered Some Kind Of Cadwallader, we can all go to sleep a little bit happier. Their bubbly and spastic mid-90’s Midwest emo diatribes are straight out of the schmap’n schmazz playbook but anchored by enough twinkling melodies and intertwining circular guitar lines that (despite the shouty vocals) Some Kind Of Cadwallader manages to escape sounding just like an Analphabetapolothology redux.
Some Kind Of Cadwallader is angularly infectious and overflowing with youthful, buoyant energy that makes me feel about a dozen years younger than I really am. It is a wonderfully refreshing album that has been in constant rotation here at casa de Sunset and really makes you believe that you can’t look at the sky without looking right through it. Somewhere, the Kinsella brothers are smiling.
MP3 | Algernon Cadwallader – Casual Discussion In A Dome Between Two Temples Some Kind Of Cadwallader
MP3 | Algernon Cadwallader – Serial Killer Status Some Kind Of Cadwallader
somewhere, the kinsella brothers are laughing at the utter plagiarism. this doesn’t even come close to cap’n jazz though. mediocre.
algernon rules, ive only seen them once but I have all their music and it really is optimism at its prime. Yeah, they have simmilarities to cap’n jazz but theyre doing theyre own thing. and no disrespect but tim kinsella is a pretentious asshole that acoustic album he did was just bullshit, I hate when people refer to kinsella as being this like awesome dude who invented this whole style of music, yeah capn jazz rules but these dudes take it to a whole new level. I give Algernon a 10/10