French Toast - In A Cave CD Album

French Toast - In A Cave CD


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The assumption that is sometimes unfairly made of the Dischord label is that it is a repository for documenting the hardcore scene in Washington, D.C., and nothing more. However, a careful observation of its catalog would yield a wide variety of sonic experiments and textures that are on par with even the most heralded of indie post-rock imprints. The latest in a long series documenting a small circle of artist's careers in Washington, D.C., focuses on two groups comprised of two people. One-half of this puzzle is label co-founder Ian MacKaye and his Evens project, and the second-half is Jerry Busher and Jimmy Canty pairing under the guise French Toast. A far cry from the post-rock manifestos of Fugazi (Busher is the second percussionist during the group's live shows) and go-go blitzkrieg of Canty's the Nation of Ulysses/the Make-Up's funk-punk explosion projects, French Toast is a somber and electronically dominated project that nods in reverence to such other heralded D.C. projects as Happy Go Licky and more recently Dismemberment Plan. But what sets French Toast apart from these other groups is the level of restraint and maturity the duo display throughout the album's 12 songs. Sounding like it could have been easily conceived in the confines of John McEntire's Soma Studios, the duo works its anger and issues out until hitting the full, definitive stride of "Lion's Den" and "Seen Me," which wouldn't seem out of place on the finest of Pixies' recordings. The duo is versatile and moves easily from one texture to the next until the final and haunting moments of the album's closer, "Nobody Knows," a sparse piano-fronted composition whose weight is only intensified by the lingering silence in between notes. The final lyrics quite grimly state "there's no way to go but down," but In a Cave proves quite the opposite; it's an impressive debut with plenty to offer even the most stodgy of indie rock purists who still hold firm to the absurd notion that Dischord is hardcore punk and nothing else. ~ Rob Theakston

James Canty Of Make-Up & Jerry Busher Of Fugazi

Recording information: Key Club Recording Studios (07/2004).

Photographers: Bill Skibbe; Jessica Ruffins; Arianna Angles; Marc Roman; French Toast.

French Toast: Jerry Busher (piano); James Canty (bass guitar).

Personnel: James Canty (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards, drums); Jerry Busher (vocals, keyboards, drums).

In A Cave Music

Category	Rock/Pop Albums, Country CDs, Rock
Label	Dischord
Orig Year	2005
All Time Product Rank	421,063
CD Universe Part number	6840377
Discs	1
Release Date	Mar 01, 2005
Studio/Live	Studio
Mono/Stereo	Stereo
Engineer	Bill Skibbe; Jessica Ruffins; Bill Skibbe; Jessica Ruffins
Personnel	James Canty - bass guitar Jerry Busher - piano

French Toast - In A Cave Songs

	Trk	Song
	1	Float Away
	2	Pattern
	3	New Dub
	4	What I See
	5	Lion's Den
	6	Seen Me
	7	In My Room
	8	Off Center
	9	Back Off or Els
	10	Anger in Your Eyes
	11	Insane
	12	Nobody Knows

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