Captain Vapour Athletes

Captain Vapour Athletes Artist: Buffalo Daughter
Label: Grand Royal Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 758148003024
EAN: 0758148003024
ASIN: B000001X3T


Release Date: 1996-08-26

Captain Vapour Athletes


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Tracks:

  1. Counter Parrot
  2. Cold Summer
  3. Vampeeee
  4. Silver Turkey
  5. California Blues
  6. Dr. Mooooog
  7. Brush Your Teeth
  8. Kelly
  9. Big Wednesday
  10. Baby Amoebae Goes South
  11. LI303VE
  12. Vapour Action Forever

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Almost a "Captain".......2004-10-15

Buffalo Daughter is probably the least conventional rock band that still has appeal -- like taking an acid trip through a DJ's turntable. And that applies even more so to "Captain Vapour Athletes," their wildly hypnotic (and wildly uneven) avante-rock debut.

Experimentation is heavy in this album -- it opens with the sonic twiddle "Counter Parrot," later follows up with drum pitter-patter "Vampeeee," and reaches its weirdness climax with "Dr. Moooog," with its spaceship sound effects. Buffalo Daughter aren't afraid to simply sprinkle in stuff that has nothing do with music, and somehow these fit the album. But there are also songs like "Silver Turkey" (reportedly about buses), catchy "California Blues," and the sprawling, bizarre epic of "LI303VE."

Basically, "Captain Vapour Athletes" is a potent mixture of random, sometimes pointless sounds, and mind-blowing electro-rock songs. It's far less conventional than their second album "New Rock," and not too engaging. But it's also weirdly hypnotic -- it's hard to stop listening, because who knows what sonic flourishes could be missed if you do?

Instrumentation is where Buffalo Daughter rarely goes wrong. Some loud rock guitars spurt in and out, and Sugar Yoshinaga takes center stage in songs like "Silver Turkey." Keyboards often push the guitars out of the way, layered and adding a strangely spacey sound as Moog Yamamoto does his magic. Then there are heavy basslines, weird sound effects (is that a parrot?) and turntable madness.

"Captain Vapour Athletes" is a growing pain -- Buffalo Daughter was still experimenting, still growing into their sound. It's a curiously engaging exercise, but not the best they have done.

5 out of 5 stars simply put,..........2002-05-10

the single-most under-appreciated band on the planet...

you go, girls! :) ...

5 out of 5 stars

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