The warmth and spaciousness of Cave’s sound on Allways is refreshing, comfortable, and ultimately an easy-to-like sound. shows May 18 The Chapel San Francisco, CA May 21 Kuumbwa Jazz Center Santa Cruz, CA Jul 27 Judson & Moore Chicago, IL Jul 28 Judson & Moore Chicago, IL Jul 30 Union Pool Brooklyn, NY discography Fried In Denver Apr 2023 Bird Bath Apr 2023 Flops In NYC Apr 2023 more releases.
After a massively successful independent release earlier in the year, Ryley Walker returns with Course in Fable, a sprawling folk album drenched in the ‘80s prog-rock with which Walker is intimately familiar. And on the nine-minute standout “Beaux,” the group give themselves the amount of real estate needed to truly allow their grooves to take off into the upper stratosphere. Course in Fable is Ryley Walker’s second superb effort of 2021, vastly different than his first but no less affecting. Even on “Dusty,” which offers the promise of a Comets on Fire-style freakout-something they’d likely pull of brilliantly-the group eventually settles into a laid-back funk scratch that’s warmer and progresses slowly into something more raucous.
Over their past handful of records, Cave have reined in some of their wildest tendencies, and more than ever their sound is marked by a tastefully funky restraint. Their jams are cosmic and strange (“Dusty”). But in the sense that Cave swirl together all of these various influences amid loosely bound structures and an ever-expanding musical frontier without much concern for reining themselves in too much, then yes, Cave most certainly jam. They’ve been called a “jam band” in the past, which has a tendency to evoke some fairly uncool associations the efforts of Lady Bird and Ryley Walker aside, Dave Matthews Band still isn’t a go-to band for winning anybody cred. But to hear a song like “ San’Yago,” the hypnotic Afrobeat-inspired funk-jam standout on the band’s new album Allways, it’s hard to imagine anyone not being able to get lost in its scratchy one-note guitar licks, organ drones and deeply mesmerizing bassline.Īllways follows a similar progression as the band’s previous albums, building up the kind of psychedelic progressions as their krautrock influences in bands such as Neu! and Can, infusing them with the improvisational techniques of jazz fusion and taking a tour through various global reference points. Cave isn’t pop music, and they’re by no means purveyors of a sound that has broad, mainstream appeal, or even indie-famous appeal, necessarily. That’s not all they know-the group’s members have put in time in avant garde metal outfit Warhammer 48k and progressive electronic spiritualists Bitchin Bajas-but theirs is a highly infectious, accessible specialty, which isn’t as easily said about those other projects. Chicago psychedelic rock outfit Cave know their way around a groove.
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