C.D. Singles Club #40 – Citay – Careful With That Hat
No disrespect to the month of December, but I’m getting super excited for January. You, me, and the creepy dude down the street are in for an ass-load of solid indie rock releases the first month of 2010, and Citay’s forthcoming Dream Get Together is the latest addition to my “albums to look forward to as 2010 dawns” list.
Dream Get Together, which will be released by Dead Oceans on January 26th, finds the San Francisco jam-pop collective stretching out, and adding a little Athens, GA-style quirk to the rugged 70s riffs that characterized their previous Dead Oceans release, 2007’s Little Kingdom.
The new record is set to open with “Careful With That Hat,” a lengthy Neil Young meets ‘luded-up Phish and R.E.M. plus a little soprano breathy “ah-ah-ah” pop track that aptly prepares the listener for all that follows. Nearly 7 minutes long, it shouldn’t surprise you to see me use a descriptor like sprawling, but Citay makes the most of the minutes, changing gears and attitudes throughout the ride.
The third quarter of the song is perhaps the best, with a grungy belly riff that comes in underneath some of the more amusing pop affect that preceded it and turns the whole thing into something more guttural and dramatic than you might have expected. The song ends where you’d expect a Phish jam to get started, a deft choice in my humble opinion.
Leave a Reply