Castanets - Cathedral

Originally released in 2004, Cathedral was the debut release by a unique voice of avant-country, San Diego's Castanets. Backed by the haunting, angelic voices of Bridgit DeCook (Belltower) and labelmate Liz Janes, and recorded mostly in a secluded cabin in the northern California woodlands, Cathedral illuminates the dark architecture where faith and doubt clash in an oftenambiguous
search for the divine. Castanets create music that is epic and inspiring. From somber love ballads to haunted tales of frustrated redemption, the delivery is potent and devoid of cliché or sentimentalism. Echoes of the The Velvet Underground, No Neck Blues Band, and the delta blues, harness a strain of ancient Americana that even today pulses through a subdivided and paved landscape. Cathedral was received with critical acclaim, earning it Best New Music on Pitchfork and rave reviews in publications such as Magnet, Resonance Magazine, Dusted, and many others. Asthmatic Kitty realized it would be a crime not to release Cathedral in LP format and apologize for waiting this long. "Best suited to awkward late-night consumption, to be devoured while hiding under the sheets, clutching a flashlight, breathing heavy and deep. - Pitchfork (Best New Music 2004) “Castanets' Raposa” ranks high among a menagerie of scruffy songwriters whittling at the dark corncob strains of ghostly Americana, and Cathedral is one of 2004's strongest debuts" – Magnet. "Castanets will spirit you off to other plains of deconstructionist country rock existence" – Fahrenheit

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