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Kaddisfly
Buy Our Intention; We'll Buy You A Unicorn (2005)
(Hopeless)
Review by: soulbleed
Published on April 29th 2005
Put aside what might be the most pretentious album title of the year, some pseudo-intellectual filler ("Horses Galloping On Sailboats"), and some pretty self-indulgent song titles ("For The Ejection Of Rest; They'll Dance" and "Let Weight Be Measured By Merit"), and you'll have one very interesting and effective rock album. It's not quite emo, it's not quite prog-rock, it's not quite alt-rock -- it's an amalgam of all those things, but there's still more. There's some space rock, new wave, and some hard rock leanings on Buy Our Intention; We'll Buy You A Unicorn, Kaddisfly's second and first album released nationally through Hopeless Records.
While combining vastly different styles isn't exactly a new thing, especially in the day and age where bands are reaching for anything from the closet to combine with their neo-teenage angst and call it art, Kaddisfly does it a tad bit differently. They put a lot of thought into their songs, whereas most of their competition just kind of throw a bunch of genres together and hope it maks some sort of impact. The band most often vists a spacey kind of emo rock, not too far off from Codeseven at times, but not too close to them either. They also tend to sound like a less-pretentious Brazil, but again, not really -- there's so many bands that Kaddisfly seem to pull from that it's become such a new thing that it's actually hard to identify what sources the sounds originally came from.
The album is really just something you'll have to hear to understand, and you'll need some time before you can really form an opinion. You might hate it at first because it sounds like everything at once, but if you give it a chance, it just might win you over and completely envelop your life. You might even like it a lot at first -- it just depends. Regardless of how you come around, you'll notice how clear this album's production is right off the bat. There's so much attention given to each instrument, and it's rare that an album on an indie label gets as much of a treatment as this one does. Make sure you check out "La Primera Natural Disaster," for it's one of the hardest-hitting tracks on the album, and the delightful "The Calm of Calamity." Hopefully, you'll like it. - punknews.org
Kaddisfly "Buy Our Intention; We’ll Buy You a Unicorn" [Hopeless]
We instantly fell in love with this second record from Portland, Oregon’s Kaddisfly. Their approach is sophisticated, passionate and engaging. Louis Posen, Owner of the Hopeless label has said accurately, "if you like punk, indie rock, metal jam bands, jazz and more… you will love them." The band pays special attention to all artistic aspects including the live show and artwork. Obviously driven and talented, watch for these guys on tour in 2005. - Indie Pulse
Discography
Honorable Mention EP (2001)
the Humania EP (2002)
Did You Know People Can Fly (2003)
Buy Our Intention, We'll Buy You A Unicorn (2005)
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Bio
An influential 20th century composer once posed a very troubling question: If music is dying, are musicians the ones who are killing it? Have these same musicians lost their natural intuition for creativity and vision in our vast sea of genre expectation, egocentric notoriety, and mainstream acceptance? Moments after the completion of their 2005 aural collage, it becomes apparent that the Oregon's Kaddisfly has both struggled with this question, and emphatically reacted to its significance. Holding on to every sense of their artistic integrity, the band has consciously put its faith in one cyclical principal of the humanistic third dimension: Intelligent, engaging, and passionate art will forever remain an unwavering esoteric constant.
From a linear perspective, the concept of Kaddisfly has traversed an enormous distance since its conception in a rural Eugene shanty at the turn of the Millennium. With the release of their 2001 EP Honorable Mention, 2002 EP Humania, and their challengingly thematic, 2003 opus Did you Know People Can Fly, the band, through incessant touring, broken hearts, financial collapse, and occasional emotional ruin has built an impenetrable underground reputation for emotional substance and creative mutation. Avoiding the music industry's postmodern confines of prepackaged labels and transparent boxes, Kaddisfly have attempted to replace image with substance, novelty with focus, limitation with inspiration, and eyes with ears.
Pulling together every lesson and mistake of the first three years, the independently produced and distributed "Did you Know People Can Fly" would offer a brief snapshot of things to come. The audible balance sheet would propel the band on their fifth independent West Coast tour and invariably lead to a future courtship with their metaphorical Juliet, Hopeless Records. After over four years of searching through America's nomadic middle earth, the native Oregonian's finally found their lover, and so commenced their journey to alter humania and save humanity. Their first quest will be the release of their 2005 Hopeless Records debut, Buy Our Intention; We'll Buy You a Unicorn. An entity that will weave a sleek tapestry of sonic wallpaper for anyone with an open ear or mind, the sharply focused effort promises to offer the versatile, fearlessly thematic, and eclectic characterization of sound that is uniquely Kaddisfly.
And so the earth will continue to rotate into 2005 and Kaddisfly will attempt to show that their perpetual search for influence goes far beyond any poem, short story, film or composition. With a self imposed and slightly pretentious muse of originality, the band has, once again, sought refuge in the intangible subtext of elemental existence- the sun, earth, sea, and soil. For the band, We are all of the same mind that if we are going to exist in this business, we will have to perpetually challenge ourselves, take risks, and never create the same record twice. The moment you grow static is the moment your music needs eyes. As their Hopeless release will be leaps and bounds from any previous Kaddisfly session, the emphasis will move from Did You Know People Can Fly? to The connection between Unicorns, gentle lovers, and the possibility of knowing that everything is going to be okay.-Michael. Akira. Yoshida.
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