Don Caballero – What Burns Never Returns: 25th Anniversary 2LP (Transparent Yellow Vinyl) Sale

Limited 25th anniversary edition on transparent yellow vinyl of Don Caballero s third album, What Burns Never Returns (Originally released in 1998, Touch and Go Records). Yet another testament of pure musical genius from the wizards of Don Caballero. This album – probably their greatest effort to date and a keystone instrumental album – will make musicians stand open-mouthed in absolute amazement, wondering just how such music is written. – Allmusic. Com As the purveyor of brainy, muscular instrumental rock, Don Caballero spent most of it s early years labeled the Geeks from Pittsburgh who don t sing. Now that the rest of the indie-rock world has warmed up to instrumental rock (see the popularity of Tortoise, et al. ), Don Caballero reemerges from hiatus with it s third full-length, What Burns Never Returns. Staying ahead of the learning curve, the band employs little of the muscle that marked it s earlier efforts, instead adopting a more highbrow, abstract approach to it s music making. The band is not improvising per se, but creating meticulously arranged, post-Kind Crimson-like songs that attack odd time signatures. Stunning in it s acrobatic musicianship, intriguing in it s relentless experimentalism, What Burns… is indeed a welcome return. – Tad Hendrickson, CMJ New Music Report, 1998