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Review: 'No Captains'
'Friends Like these'   

-  Label: 'Bandcamp'
-  Genre: 'Rock' -  Release Date: '6.12.21.'

Our Rating:
No Captains are a San Francisco based female fronted Funk Rock trio and Friends Like These is the bands fourth album.

The album opens with what sounds like the spoken word intro to a particularly grizzly horror film on Looking Glass with a tale that has a very Edgar Allen Poe type feel to it.

Never Been Named changes things up sounding like Skunk Anansie's Little Baby Swastika but with a different type of horror and disgrace at the core of this song whose bass line will draw you in to the reality they are trying to create.

Donut Theory is a tale of young love that goes un-requited as the object of her lust goes away in search of a squelchier even more cartoon bassline than the imperiously cartoon one that leads this song.

If this band were Irish then Maze 5 would certainly have been about being banged up in that foreboding prison, but as they come from San Francisco, this is a tale of the one that's being told to go away, as well she no longer wants you, as the slightly spooky sounds surround yet another central bass line as Alex Shonkoff's vocals remind me of both Skin and Linda Perry before they get to the drum solo that punctuates the story at the centre of this song.

Throne has an almost proggy riff before the bass and vocals come in to make sure the widdly guitar parts don't overwhelm the song, as Alex tries to gain her freedom from the shackles she feels are holding her back.

A Wrinkle In Slime sounds like they have been horrified to find there is still somewhere offering Female Mudwrestling for entertainment and they wish to bring about the sort of change that will end such horrors, as they actually sing about running and hiding from the trouble that befalls them.

River Run features guest vocals from Lester Raww that gives this a vaguely pirate metal feel to it as they sail slowly down that River and this tale of drugs and despair unfolds.

Quit Your Jobs has some brilliant Trombone set against the bass and a tale of hatred of the 1% and the need for us all to quit our jobs and to then stand back and watch the world fall apart for the super wealthy who as the Pandemic took hold sacked loads of workers rather than taking care of them.

Sirens is the punkiest tune on the album and has male vocals that are countered by Alex's rather more demure replies to his pleading to be allowed to wake up next to her.

2 Left Feet is a song about there hatred of too much quiet, they need noise and drama, as she wants the nerdy bumbling fool to make another attempt to talk to her without getting tongue tied.

13th Moon takes some horror movie noises to wrap around the bassline and a proper Halloween style lyric about last year having 13 new moons and what that might mean.

The album concludes with The Tide a slow walk along the beach in San Francisco, hopefully not marveling at all the condoms that had washed up on the beach, as they had in the 1990's, but if that's the case this is the perfect tune for carefully picking your way through the mess.


Find Out More at http://nocaptains.com/ https://nocaptainssf.bandcamp.com/album/friends-like-these https://www.facebook.com/NoCaptains


  author: simonovitch

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