Event

Castles

Editor's Pick: Best Experimental Band in Fort Collins. 2008.

"Being an experimental band isnt tough, but being a good experimental band is. Indeed, there is distinction between producing sounds freely and bravely, and taking that way too far. How far is too far? Using a rooster as a background singer? Recording armpit-fart sounds? Fort Collins electronic-folk group Castles scratches our itch for local art-rock achievement. They have plenty of well-executed, out-of-the-way sounds and rarely descend into unnecessary sonic fuckabout. Castles is led by Matthew Sage, who builds tracks on his laptop, mixing natural rock phenomena (drums, guitar and vocals) with often-danceable beats and other tasty synthetic distortions. The result is successfully spacey, with Sages voice sounding like hes either sleep-deprived or on some heavy downers, singing cryptic-yet-imagistic lyrics over robust percussion and shimmering-sunset atmospherics."
-Editors, Rocky Mountain Chronicle