DougW. 
Tash Jayasinghe
Cibbuano
New Dark Captain Light Captain Song
March 6th 2007 18:29
Go to the band's MySpace to listen to 'Robot Command Centre'. Mmm!
PM loves a little bit of clarinet. Used correctly, it can be the sound of sex and meekness, and Dark Captain Light Captain have definitely plumped for the former. Woodwind is something that can make or break a folk song (that was PM insulting Steeleye Span, insult fans), but there is enough veiled menace and potential energy in the ebony-black clarinet line to transfix. You'll listen very closely for its return at the tail-end of the song, and you'll miss it while it's gone.
This is, oddly, an extremely intimate sort of song, slightly insidious and seedy in its use of computer plonks of mantra-esque regularity. There's a definite tangible element of last-thing-at-night-slightly- inebriated wooze to this one, an engaging new character for this (so far) massively consitent duo. As ever, it's the atmospheres created that impress over any simple melodic aspects: DCLC are one of the hallowed few who heed the maxim that it's what you leave out of your music that's more important. 'Robot Command Centre' is utterly enveloping, just like everything else they've written.
But WHERE IS YOUR ALBUM, SIRS? PLEASE RECORD IT SOON.
PM loves a little bit of clarinet. Used correctly, it can be the sound of sex and meekness, and Dark Captain Light Captain have definitely plumped for the former. Woodwind is something that can make or break a folk song (that was PM insulting Steeleye Span, insult fans), but there is enough veiled menace and potential energy in the ebony-black clarinet line to transfix. You'll listen very closely for its return at the tail-end of the song, and you'll miss it while it's gone.
This is, oddly, an extremely intimate sort of song, slightly insidious and seedy in its use of computer plonks of mantra-esque regularity. There's a definite tangible element of last-thing-at-night-slightly- inebriated wooze to this one, an engaging new character for this (so far) massively consitent duo. As ever, it's the atmospheres created that impress over any simple melodic aspects: DCLC are one of the hallowed few who heed the maxim that it's what you leave out of your music that's more important. 'Robot Command Centre' is utterly enveloping, just like everything else they've written.
But WHERE IS YOUR ALBUM, SIRS? PLEASE RECORD IT SOON.
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