Cap Pas Cap - Haunted Light

Skinny Wolves Records are excited to finally announce the release of Cap Pas Cap much anticipated debut LP, "Haunted Light". Dublins dark pop wonders, Cap Pas Cap, have come along way from the more krautrock-influenced new wave sounds on their first "Not Not is Fine" 12" EP released at the end of 2006 (which sold out in a couple of weeks, along with the Japanese re-issue selling out in days), to the hypnotic and spacey new-wave-no-wave-what-wave terrain of their 'We Are Men' 12" single in 2009 (featuring remixes from Jape, Decal & thatboytim). Now, at the end of 2010, Cap Pas Cap re-appear out of the ether, with a sound they can unmistakable call their own. Haunted Light, their debut album, is a product of this paradox - darkness | light : being | not being : quiet | loud - with the tension of such oppositional forces finding resolution somehow through the music. Early tracks such as Mirrors and We Are Men, deliver short sharp manifestos of the Cap Pas Cap sound, before the album takes a vertiginous trip downwards into the dark atmospheric vortex of Ship Shadow. With its insistent swirls of electronic noise, Ship Shadow pulls the listener inexorably into its dreamscape; a throbbing industrial head-trip that wouldn t be out of place in a Gasper Noé film. In contrast its melancholy counterpoint Hearts is absolutely controlled dream pop, with gossamer instrumentation complementing the delicate vocal as it glides elegantly towards a conclusion. In between is the succinct dancefloor vérité of Friends, a jerky brisk interlude that anticipates the urgent triple-pronged avant pop of Can t Say, Brand New Town and Y Lies. Y Lies in particular begins like a demented outcast, willfully dissonant and angular, before evolving into a rhythmic pop beast - but only ever on its own terms. Penultimate track Save our Sights is a further demonstration of Cap Pas Caps knack for building a song around an insistent pop hook and is aided by a sophisticated production which echoes the work of Martin Hannett in his heyday. This would be a fitting end until you hear actual closing track Night Tribes, a tribal motorik coda closing Haunted Light with a heady flourish. While their antecedents can be traced back to a post punk milieu and the creative vapour trails that followed, Cap Pas Cap do not simply ape their heroes. Rather, through a distillation of influences they have arrived at a sound and dynamic that is wholly and unmistakably their own.

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