Interesting things have been coming out of Florida and The Caution Children certainly count among them. This power-pop-punk gang attacks the senses and leaves us wanting more in their latest release, Safe Crusades / No Judgements / And Baby (Flannel Gurl Records).
The album starts with a rising clamor forming a noxious cloud of sound that becomes “Psalms.” The beauty here is the antithesis of what most of us would admire in an artist. Rather than constructing a hook or catch, The Caution Children seek to dismantle our ears, bring down our conceptions, and demonstrate the fragile ecosystem between noise and silence.
Later in the album we find “knowing about bombs,” which is as bombastic as the title indicates. At this point there is a pattern established where we are guided by The Caution Children from a beginning which softly sets us to be caught off guard to a higher explosion. “Moon Museum” also provides us an interlude in which to recover from the chaos which truly makes it the eye of the storm in the maelstrom that is “Safe Crusades / No Judgements / And Baby.”
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