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Before, listening to Don Caballero felt similar to being beaten over the head with a huge baseball bat of pure audible genius: often too overwhelming and complicated for your average music listener to listen to for very long, much less understand. With American Don, it seems that the baseball bat has been traded in for a pillow, and instead of beating they are slowly smothering. Much of the aggressive bite of the music has been simmered out: distortion is much more rare, time changes have been minimized, even the notoriously breakneck drumming of Damon Che has been sedated. The only piece that seems most similar to the styles they had established before is the extremely quirky and choppy "Details on How to Get ICEMAN on Your License Plate"; the rest only briefly moves through familiar places, instead choosing to uproot and shapeshift in listeners' collective faces. Those familiar with Ian and Eric's other band Storm & Stress might also notice a bit of flowing over from the techniques and styles on their records.
As always, innovation, progression, and surprise seem to be a significant part of the Don Caballerian musical mindset; something is always surfacing out of unexpected dimensions and throwing you miles from where you thought you were heading. This is complicated and explosive. This is American Don: an eloquently stuttered statement of instability and grace all at once. ~ Blake Butler
Recorded in Electrical Audio A Room, Chicago, Illinois.
Personnel: Ian Williams (guitar).
Recording information: Electrical Audio A Room, Chicago, IL.
Personnel: Ian Williams (guitar); Eric Emm (bass); Damon Che (drums).
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Spin (12/00, p.230) - 7 out of 10 - "...Lovely, complex stuff. This is post-rock in the most literal sense: another Midwestern art band abandoning brawn for beauty."
Alternative Press (12/00, p.95) - 4 out of 5 - "...The planet's greatest all-instrumental rock band....[hey] not only make 3 instruments sound like 9, they pack more 'oomph' into this meager space than most bands twice their size..." Don Caballero American Don Songs American Don Music Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  Does This Album Even Need A Review?
It is a rare thing to find anything said about this band that would be considered unfavorable. Having played in a band with guitarist Ian Williams before he joined Damon Che's outfit, I have a personal connection with Don Caballero that certainly endears them to me. And approaching a Don Caballero album seems to take a certain discipline at times, like listening to classical music even. So I conducted an experiment today; I listened to American Don on repeat all day long. And much to my surprize, as I am even now listening to it for possibly the 12th time today, I AM NOT SICK OF HEARING IT!!!! This is THE ONLY - I repeat, ONLY album that I have ever been able to do that with. Others have come close, but this one takes the cake. I am so proud of these guys. I give it five stars, not to say that it is their best work to date, but that their work is the best to date, PERIOD. Way to go Don!
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