a revelation<\/a>, a stunning Led Zeppelin \/ Tom Petty mind-meld full of powerhouse guitar work and memorable songs. It was the culmination of a three-album run that began less auspiciously with the group\u2019s self-titled 1999 debut, which could generously be described as a hot mess. The Tom Collins<\/i> was full of Capitanelli\u2019s laconic TP-esque snarl and fat Jimmy Page power riffing, but eschewed any semblance of discipline or structure in favor of a chaotic \u201cIt\u2019s 2 a.m., and I\u2019ve had a couple too many\u201d vibe that, listened to in the cold light of day, leaves you shaking your head at the serial missed opportunities.<\/p>\nAfter moving on from The Tom Collins and doing a fair amount of session work with Butch Walker and Gavin Degraw in the interim, Capitanelli turns Kave Talk<\/i> into a true solo showcase, covering nearly all the instruments himself. That said, this feels in many ways like The Tom Collins, part IV.<\/p>\n
One thing\u2019s for sure: Fran Capitanelli loves to play guitar, animating these nine tunes with a tremendous range of interesting, complex, and consistently melodic riffing. Opener \u201cI Sent You On\u201d features a kind of dreamy\/beachy vibe, with references to a coconut forest and the shore, as big, weepy, rather Harrison-esque guitar accents descend past. \u201cMy Favorite Jeans\u201d extends the dopey slacker vibe with a loopy lyric over a big airy riff: \u201cI think it\u2019s time for my favorite jeans \/ Where are they? \/ I think it\u2019s time to rip some holes in the knees \/ But they\u2019re on me.\u201d It\u2019s laidback, atmospheric weirdness interrupted only by a fiery little mini-solo. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s Nothin\u2019 To Think About\u201d opens with a dash of musical chaos before resolving into a big, thumping mid-tempo number that finds Capitanelli emphasizing the little David Bowie quaver that sometimes creeps into his vocals. Both it and the brief, heavy\/greasy \u201cDangerous Place To Be\u201d (\u201cIt\u2019s a dangerous place to be \/ Inside my head\u201d) close with wildly elastic, evocative solos.<\/p>\n
The continental divide of this album\u2014the halfway high point\u2014comes with \u201cRecent Suspicions,\u201d steady and serious with airy production and multi-tracked background vocals adding dimension, and a big echoey solo full of swerves, dives and miscellaneous whammy bar mischief. \u201cIt seems they were right,\u201d sings our indisputably guilty Fran in a matter-of-fact tone, \u201cyour recent suspicions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Each of the above, and the songs that follow, ambles past like a long story from the guy at the bar, full of sardonic, at times disjointed observations on the day. \u201cTip Your Glass\u201d is explicitly just that, a two-minute salute to binge-drinking and calling in sick to work, capped off by a playful solo that\u2019s half dreamy and half frenetic. The final trio is highlighted by the heavy yet distinctly off-kilter riffing of \u201cSpot In Her Makeup\u201d and the deliriously bloozy kiss-off closer \u201cThe Very Last Show.\u201d \u201cI\u2019d give you one more last time \/ To hear you say that you love me so,\u201d sings Capitanelli over a fat blues foundation augmented by purring Hammond organ. \u201cSorry baby, you just caught my last show.\u201d<\/p>\n
The real question is, is this album a strange kind of fun\u2026 or a fun kind of strange? The answer depends on what angle you come at this music from. If you\u2019re looking for the kind of disciplined, powerful songcraft Capitanelli displayed on Daylight Tonight<\/i>, you\u2019re not going to find it here. But if you\u2019re vulnerable to the charms of a laidback barroom philosopher full of soggy shaggy-dog tales, who also happens to play some ferociously inventive electric guitar, then step right in, grab a stool, and make yourself comfortable. It\u2019s gonna be a long night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":32370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[9630],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-44124","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-fran-capitanelli","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44124"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}