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Get a load of Caesura’s kindly sonic wrath. A 99 cent bin find turned into a fantastic discovery. I picked up this San Fran trio’s More Specific Less Pacific on a whim and was richly rewarded. The first track, “For Staged Encore”, let me know immediately that these duders were not fucking around. The album has its low points but I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys having their asses handed to them (musically). Later on the same album is “Gesture”, an insistent song with an achingly gorgeous chorus and finale.

Eager for more, I stalked the band’s (now defunct) website for word of their next release. Once Wallpaper The Witness came out, I snatched it up and got pummeled once again. An even more intense record with staccato drumbeats, precise basslines, and a wall of guitar. Vocally and lyrically, the band keeps things very minimal but always well-placed. This is especially true on “Sluts”:

“Shout outs for sluts
Kissy kissy
Shout out shout out
Sluts sluts”

My final offering of Caesura to you, good people, is “Into Camoflage”. Now I know it’s not the best track on the album but be sure to hang on for the last minute and a half of this track. Holy shit, this makes me feel like someone just smeared sunset under my eyelids.

Dear Caesura boys,

Please record more albums.

Love,

Richard

Brad Purvis - Bass
Evan Rehill - Guitar, voice
Mike Shoun - Drums

From More Specific Less Pacific
For Staged Encore

Gesture

From Wallpaper The Witness

Sluts

Into Camoflage

Get Caesura albums here:

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Aquarius Records

I tracked down some hard-to-find Edsel tracks for my own enjoyment and I figured I would share them with y’all. First up is “Feeder”, a song from Simple Machines, circa 1990. This comp was very easy to track down from Amazon. The song is probably one of Edsel’s first and isn’t too bad (though it hasn’t aged all that well). Next we have “Flywheel” from the WGNS Gots No Station Compilation Volume Two from the summer of 1993. This is a pretty decent track and could easily fit in on the Everlasting Belt Co. album of the same year. The WGNS comp is another cheap and easy Amazon find.

Now the hard stuff. David over at Hornbuckle.org hooked me up with the most difficult track to locate. “Plastic Passion” is the only cover song Edsel recorded that I know of. It’s from Give Me The Cure: A Tribute To The Cure and is a pretty amazing take on a very old Cure song. Compare Edsel’s to the original. Finally, I grabbed the Indie-Rock Flea Market 7″ from eBay for a very late Edsel track: “Under A Hard Ride”. Oh man, I’m so glad I got this one. This is definitely my favorite of the rarities and it makes an excellent companion to their “Plastic Passion” cover.

Well, folks, I’m outta here. If anyone out there has any Edsel (the band, not the dang car!) photos, rare songs, live recordings, or trivia, please hook me up. I’m thinking of doing a fan page and could use all the help I can get. Anyway, here are the fruits of my labor (and $14)…

Edsel - Feeder

Edsel - Flywheel

Edsel - Plastic Passion

Edsel - Under A Hard Ride

Bonus (at Jade Tree Records):

Edsel - No. 5 Recitative