Cincinnati-based Roundhead reach dizzying new heights with the expansive, contemporary psychedelia of their second full-length, Creature Comfort. Space rock without overindulgence or a lack of melodicism, Roundhead's latest mood cocktails provide an apt introduction to a creative ensemble who always brew an unique and often surprising mix. The cosmic atmosphere and fluid-but-unexpected structures are penetrated by memorable vocal hooks and chiming trumpet, which seem to champion the arrival of some majestic extraterrestrial assailant.
The consuming sonic layers are fleshed out by avant guitar elasticity and a throbbing rhythm section, with bass lines that engulf and caress simultaneously and beats that stoically keep everything reined in with an impenetrable groove. Add shimmering sheets of effected cello ambiance and you have got a record that sticks in your consciousness while concurrently stretching its boundaries.
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It's been a long time. You probably don't remember me, but from time to time you used to play drums with Bobby Nicholas and our band, The Beercats, at Fat Cat's Bar in Clifton.
Man, how the time flys. I guess it was back around 1999 when we last played music together. I'm glad to hear that your band is still going strong and doing well.
Anyway, I ran across your MySpace page and I thought I would drop you a comment. If you ever get time, drop by our MySpace page or web site and drop us a line.
A not so great translation of the Spanish Review, courtesy of Google Translator:
Here starting with a subject tremendously outstanding: several reviews or reviews to be leaving in the next few months. Music good (and perhaps not so much other) disc we have received and not yet reseñábamos. First on the list at random was this good record of Cincinnati, Creature Comfort a very attractive mixture of genres as we will see.
The disc I ganchó… immediately from the first sounds of Peel (a battery and a solid guitar and clean arpegiada) who will add instruments like bass and cello while the voice hit you gently in the innermost subconscious with its depth and low (although it is processed), and while it appears the trumpets digieres… Things turn! The track gancha all you all, implementation and the tools used are all in place and do well. This track is a mixture of goth as it could have done a Peter Murphy lightened and psychedelia almost without notice… excellent track, upon the arrival of this record to my hands over there in the 2001/2002 this track not stop and put go that I had lost things despite having heard this record. Retomarlo at the moment was a real gift of the year again: the disc is a real jewel.
Monkeyparts not behind the times: the voices totally contrasting while his rhythm section does a solid job in a very hidden and psychedelia again…… please listen to the trumpet silenced in their small but excellent appearances during the pendency of an obscure track that has more than goth that with everything else and acoustic guitars and excellent changes made to appear that makes the cello arropando ears. The interesting thing is that the instruments do not reach out to each other, that makes me think of an excellent team work and that the band thinks more in his music that at some ego.
Broken - Backed "illuminates" a little picture with his pace and distorted guitars in a more rock track, over alternative. Note guitar with wah-wah while
