Jealous Haters Since 1998!
Home | News | Reviews | Day In Rock | Photos | RockNewsWire | Singled Out | antiTainment Wire | Feeds
Kaddisfly - Buy Our Intention; We'll Buy You A Unicorn Review
by Eric Bodrero

.
Kaddisfly's Buy Our Intention; We'll Buy You A Unicorn is recommended for those who may suffer from ADHD, as this album hits a cornucopia of different genres, including indie rock, prog rock, alternative emo, punk, hard rock, metal, and classic rock, among others, but never sits still long enough for you to really be able to describe its sound.

The opener "La Primera Natural Disaster" sounds like it belongs in the middle of some ten-minute epic somewhere in the middle of the album, but is by no means the consistent sound throughout the record. Jarring guitars, off-kilter vocal harmonies, quirky but well played piano jaunts with a tinge of xylophone, and (gasp!) handclaps, are just a few of the types of things to be found throughout this almost seventy minute album.

What Kaddisfly does best however is in orchestrating these musical elements and piecing them all together via crystal clean production to create a musical opus that at first may be hated then loved, or loved then hated, but with so many genres and effects happening from track to track, it's hard not to love something about this record.

To be fair however, some of these tracks drag on forever without really going anywhere, and could turn off the casual alternative or emo fan. The record could have used come culling to focus this band's sound into a tighter fit. For example, the ten and a half minute experimental "Horses Galloping On Sail Boats" is a lengthy song, especially for prog/indie/alternative/classic rock. This songs serves as a kind of grand finale of experimental sounds, and we hear just about everything this band can muster up, from melancholic piano solo's and spoken word, to the signature smashing guitar licks and almost white noise driven fuzz.

But it works so well! I really could write another three thousand words filled with every adjective in the book to describe Kaddisfly's sound, but this is one of those records that absolutely must be listened to to understand. With continually shifting guitar and bass hooks, piercing then subdued vocal styles, quirky musical elements, and sounds from everyone from Coheed and Cambria and Styx to Jimmy Eat World and Korn, this is one album you won't soon forget, and garners a spot on my rather extensive list of albums of the year.


CD Info and Links

Kaddisfly - Buy Our Intention; We'll Buy You A Unicorn

Label:Hopeless
Rating:

Track Listing:
1. La Primera Natural Disaster
2. Message To The Flat Earth Society
3. Calm Of Calamity
4. Crimson Solitude
5. Eres Tremulent
6. New Moon Over Swift Water
7. Let Weight Be Measured By Merit
8. Akira
9. For The Ejection Of Rest; They'll Dance
10. Osmosis In C
11. What Comes Of Honesty
12. Five Tears From A Carpenter's Eye For Detail
13. Buy Our Intention; We'll Buy You A Unicorn
14. Set Sail The Prarie
15. Horses Galloping On Sail Boats

Preview and Purchase This CD Online

Visit the official homepage

More articles for this artist

tell a friend about this review

.

Fan Speak Your turn, post your comments and thoughts on this review and CD. But hey keep it clean, we wouldn't want to have to wash your mouth out with Old Spice.


They call you
What do you think ?:



.
.
News Reports
.
Day in Rock:
Killswitch Engage Reunite With Original Frontman Jesse Leach- U2 Triple Disc- Rolling Stones DVDs Coming- Free Music For Metal Month- Ion Dissonance- Soil and more

Yesterday's Report: Free Stone Temple Pilots Concert- Five Jimi Hendrix Albums Land In The Top 100- Smashing Pumpkins EP and In Store- New Dead Weather Album and more

 Subscribe To Day in Rock

Quicks: Stone Temple Pilots Preview- Gene Simmons Co Goes Bankrupt- AC/DC Show May Be Bombed Out- Boston- Iron Maiden's BruceAir To Fly Again- Axl Buffett- and more

Day in Pop [an error occurred while processing this directive]

.
 
Reviews
.

MorleyView: Sex Slaves (Del Cheetah)

Seasick Steve - Man From Another Time

7dayBinge

Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones

First Look: Violent Soho

The Best Films of the Decade (2000-2009): 25-1

The Best Films of the Decade (2000-2009): 50-26

The Best Films of the Decade (2000-2009): 75-51

Jimi Hendrix - Valleys of Neptune

The Best Films of the Decade (2000-2009): 100-81

Karnivool - Sound Awake

The Best Films of 2009

Graves Brothers Deluxe - San Malo

HIM - Screamworks

On The Record: Jimi Hendrix, The Love Me Nots, and Panther

Butch Walker Week: Fan Request Show

Butch Walker and The Black Widows - I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart

Musink Music and Tattoo Festival

Butch Walker Week: Sycamore Meadows Live

Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain't No Grave

Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe 2


.
.
.

Search for Tickets

Or Browse For Tickets

.
.
Today's News
.

Stone Temple Pilots Preview- Gene Simmons Co Goes Bankrupt- AC/DC Show May Be Bombed Out- Boston- Iron Maiden's BruceAir To Fly Again- Axl Buffett- and more

Killswitch Engage Reunite With Original Frontman Jesse Leach

Rolling Stones DVDs Coming Soon

U2 Release Extremely Limited Edition Triple Disc Album

Free Music For Metal Month

Ion Dissonance Finish Recording New Album

Them Crooked Vultures Album For Under $3 Bucks, Single For Free This Sunday

Strange Kozmic Experience: The Doors, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix

Soil and Smile Empty Soul Tour Dates Announced

Don't Judge Sex Slaves By Their Name

Alexisonfire Go Vinyl And Announce Headlining Tour

Gwar Tap Andrew W.K. As First Guest for Crack-A-Thon

New York Dolls Going Euro

Nonpoint Lineup Dates With Sevendust

Kottonmouth Kings Gearing Up For Stoner Holiday

Queen's Roger Taylor Answers Fan Questions

Morbid Angel Member Sidelined Indefinitely By Back Surgery

Jonny Lang Busy Tour Schedule Includes Experience Hendrix and Live By Request

Killing Time Online Raffle to Benefit Brain Cancer Victims

Peter Tosh and Gram Parsons Film & Television Music Licensing Deal Struck

Ke$ha Sextape Denied- Lady Gaga Creator Sues Lady Gaga- Michael Jackson- Taylor Swift- Miley Cyrus- Janet Jackson- Fess Parker RIP- Paula Star Search Off and more

Sarah McLachlan Sets New Album Release

Z-Trip Cancels Shows Due To Emergency Surgery From Snowboarding Accident

Landon Pigg Interviewed at Michele Clark's Sunset Sessions

Meaghan Smith All Things Considered

The Perfects Reissuing Their Leaked Year Old Debut

Pharoahe Monch Going To W.A.R.

More News

Subscribe to Day in Rock Report by Email

.
 
Day in Rockers
. Sites that feature the Day in Rock

WRIFKFLY Real RockThe Rock 107.5radiorockcafe.com97.9 WCPR Biloxi100.1 The EdgeRock 105.994.7 The End96.3 The Blaze104.9 The WolfKROQWTOS Pure Rock!trakkrz.com

.
 
anti Worthy Links
.
The Screen DoorLloyd Zeffler blogGary GonzoLonn FriendTalking MetalNightwatcher's House of RockCJ ChilversDeja Voodoothecopycat.bizKeavin.comDolly's Adventures in HyperlandantiMusic MyspaceDay in Rock @twitter

.
 
Merch
.

Posters and Rock T-Shirts!



 

Tell a Friend about this page - Contact Us - Privacy - antiMusic Email - Job Postings - Advertising

Copyright© 1998 - 2010 Iconoclast Entertainment Group All rights reserved. antiMusic works on a free link policy for reprinting of our original articles, click here for details. Please click here for legal restrictions and terms of use applicable to this site. Use of this site signifies your agreement to the terms of use.