Capdown

The third album from Milton Keynes band Capdown; begins with lingering reverb, in the opening track 'Truly Dead', leading into a grinding guitar-enabled attack on traditionalism and being stuck in a rut; basically encompassing what the band's name means: Capitalist Downfall. With such lofty aims as creating music ruminating on the effects of a global system of living, there is always the usual risk of pretensions and clichés. Not many bands seem to get away with this niche of the music world, Rage Against the Machine and System of a Down seem to come to my mind at the moment as glorious examples, with bands like Green Day and Linkin Park failing miserably, but Capdown's use of various genres that already have a history of anti-establishment hijinks, such as ska and punk, are in their favour and make the tunes highly head-bangable as well as music to listen to while writing your generation's next anti-Capitalist manifesto. It’s also nice to hear a random saxophone amid the thrashing punk and jolly ska riffs, keeping the band slightly left-field (pun intended!) from the rest of the mainstream pack.

Capdown's tunes aren’t mindless rants, but callings for various types of emancipation, that albeit don’t really tell us anything we don’t already know, but are still refreshing considering where the band hail from and their worthy aims of creating memorable choruses in music with aspirations of depth.