Not Many Experts

Labelling yourself “progressive electronica”, as Liverpool’s Capac do, can be a bit problematic, because if you add nothing to the textures already being fired onto the internet by seemingly everybody with an e-mail account, you end up looking a little bit self-absorbed, maybe even a bit deluded, and quite a bit of a dick.

Capac, as they probably know, have no need to worry. “Palindrome” eases its way to amongst the most interesting left-field electronica we’ve heard this year, and it wasn’t even released this year. How progressive is that? Its gently swelling synths and stuttering production is painstakingly built up and up, and from this seriously tangible pressure comes a widescreen, organic, progressive epic, just like they said. You can trust scousers sometimes.

Liverpool’s artists often get a public flaying for a lack of ambition, but Capac prove that this is more than slight misapprehension. If anything, all Liverpool’s finest are guilty of is being particularly bad at shameless self-promotion, which is actually quite an endearing characteristic. So I’ll have to give the shameless promotion thing a crack for them, because the objective* truth is that you can count on the fingers of this guy the number of producers in the country who are making such earthy, wonderfully tense, and genuinely inventive electronica.

Palindrome by Capac

*I’m barely even a scouser, so am probably not biased.

** This guy is though, but he’s usually right, and I can only agree that Capac are so, so worth getting your ears upon live.

*** If you’ve read all the way down here then you may as well go the whole hog and follow us on twitter as well. Go on…