Caspian - Tertia (2009)

style: experimental, shoegaze, post rock
highlights: "la cerva", "ghosts of the garden city" & "the raven"

though the music i listen to the last years is in general calm, with clean sounds, i found this noizy album so absorbing that i can't stop listening to it. A chaotic album with great melodies. shoegaze is my next "music love"

here is a review from the washington post that expresses my feeling about this album:
"Tertia" is just as effective when it sparkles as when it storms. Caspian has the instrumental firepower to make a big noise when it feels like it. But the melodies, timbres and harmonics are so fully realized that "Tertia" would be mighty, even without its climaxes."

bio: Caspian is an American instrumental rock band from Beverly, Massachusetts. The band formed in Autumn of 2003 and played their first concert in August of 2004.

After releasing their debut EP You Are The Conductor (Dopamine, 2005), the band spent most of 2006 touring The United States and Canada and writing their debut full-length record The Four Trees (Dopamine, 2007). “The Four Trees” was released in the U.S. on April 10, Japan on May 2 and in Europe in July of 2008. Both albums were produced by the band and recorded in Boston with Ethan Dussault at New Alliance studios. Caspian has independently booked, promoted and funded 4 cross country tours of the United States to promote both records since 2006 and appeared at the 2008 SXSW music festival in Austin Texas.

Sonically Caspian draws from a broad scope of influences ranging from the ambient sophistication of Eluvium and Brian Eno to the crushing fury of art-metalists such as ISIS and Tool. Emotively, the music of Caspian shares common threads with Sigur Ros, M83 and The Appleseed Cast.

The band’s third album (and second full-length), titled Tertia was released on September 15th on the Mylene Sheathe, and was followed by a European tour.

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