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“...Balances meditative restraint with a playful sense of exploration”
– MAGNET MAGAZINE
Today, West LA based instrumental trio Captains Of Entropy (keyboardist Mike Kanon, bassist Reilly Wareham, drummer Jason Young) released their latest EP, Beatrice Comes Home, a body of work that further elaborates on the band’s psychedelic inspired sound. Loosely following the narrative arc of a space travel frenzy, produced and mixed by 2x Grammy-winning engineer Bill Mims (Ben Harper, Jimmy Cliff), Beatrice Comes Home finds the perfect balance between a newfound sense of control built from the band’s free-flowing spirit as well as a feeling of lightheartedness often absent from the band’s pandemic-era work.
The pandemic musical project of three neighbors, an indie rocker, a DJ and a psychotherapist, Captains Of Entropy strives to push the limits of rhythm and harmony by crafting richly textured, enchanting soundscapes as eccentric and sun-soaked as their West LA stomping grounds. Beatrice Comes Home sees the instrumental trio take on a more narrative-based approach by fine-dialing their sound at the legendary EastWest Studios in Hollywood.
EP opener “On Juno” sets the scene with a steady pace and an almost deceiving meditative groove. “Infection” switches up with a sense of lingering unease carefully curated through cascading synth and a literally-infectious guitar build. “Rosetta” feels like the EP’s catalyst, filled with metamorphosizing moments perfected with a glitchy, digitized production. “Travelin’” takes on a more psychedelic, jazzy approach, making “Van Knees” an even more satisfying emotional closer to the project. While this project still echoes the rogue spirit of influences Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the Headhunters, Medeski Martin & Wood, Phish, and more, Beatrice Comes Home found the band experimenting with more intricate production and cohesive sonic and narrative throughlines.
Today also saw the release of the “Rosetta” music video. Crafted by video artist Matthew Mourgides and based on the band’s original concept for the EP, the video depicted the Captains embark on an one of a kind outer-space mission–one that headed to imaginary far places with whimsy cardboard attires and equipment, and perhaps headed to nowhere at all. Earlier today, the music video was premiered by BUZZMUSIC. The premiere is viewable now via their website here.
“‘Rosetta’ was named after a space mission and intended to be a dance party in space,” the band remarked on “Rosetta,” “It’s one of our more modal based songs. It’s not the most complicated chord progression which allows for a simple canvas over which to explore with more reckless abandon then some. This song of all of the songs on the new EP feels closest to what approach was on our first record, which favored a live jammy stripped-down sound.”
Matthew Mourgides remarked on the making of the music video: “The music immediately gave me this feeling of repetition and escape, of being trapped in the rhythms of everyday life while dreaming of something bigger. I wanted the three band members to almost feel like fragments of the same person, moving through this endless routine, until the world they’ve been dreaming about starts breaking through and eventually becomes their reality.”
LISTEN TO BEATRICE COMES HOME
WATCH “ROSETTA” MUSIC VIDEO
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