THE CARIBBEAN

AGENT: MATTHEW

AVAILABILITY: GENERALLY AVAILABLE FOR OFFERS / UPCOMING SHOWS

TOOLS: MAKE AN OFFER / PROMO MATERIALS / PUBLICITY

BAND SITES:  OFFICIAL BAND WEBSITE / MYSPACE PAGE

LABEL: HOMETAPES (US)

FREE MP3: The Go From Tactical

HOMETOWN:  Washington, DC

DISCOGRAPHY:

2011 - DISCONTINUED PERFUME CD

2007 - POPULATIONS CD

2005 - PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES CD

2004 - WILLIAM OF ORANGE EP

2003 - HISTORY'S FIRST KNOW-IT-ALL CD

2001 - VERSE BY VERSE CD

1999 - LITTLE VOICE EP

BIO:

Highly-respected and with deep roots in the Washington, DC music and art scene, The Caribbean has been putting out records on Portland OR's Hometapes label (also home to like-minded brainy soul bands Bear in Heaven, Megafaun, and Collections of Colonies of Bees) for nigh on six years now.  Previous releases on Canada's Endearing and Europe's Tomlab labels led to a great deal of press coverage here and abroad, and a dedicated group of national and international followers that prize the band's style of "delicate, skeletally rich encyclopedic pop," as Stereogum described it.

Auxiliary "member" Chad Clark of Dischord's Beauty Pill (and producer/mixer of most Dischord bands of the past ten years) serves as the band's Producer for Life, bringing clarity and economy to their rich, detailed visions.  A recent remix record by Scott Solter (Spoon, Mountain Goats) on Australia's Hidden Shoal label brought the band more attention, and another remix collection is scheduled for the label in November 2010.  Before that sees the release of their next full-length, Discontinued Perfume, on Hometapes in summer 2010, with extensive national touring to follow.

REVIEWS:

You're forced to occupy their barren pop architecture... You don't understand it, but, though you might not admit it, you do hope it will understand you.  Or at least not destroy you... You feel like there's a real live pop song in there somewhere, but it seems that most of the essential moments have been recorded over with silence or incidental noise.

-Pitchfork

The Caribbean. Shadowy quintet (perhaps trio?) draped in velvet enigma.  Or maybe just Steely Dan on a light-beer budget, faceless contributors scattered hither and yon,  submitting stealthy sonic fragments via telephone transmissions and paper-airplane parachute drops.

-Magnet

The brilliance of the Caribbean is subtle.  It never jumps out at you, but it's always there, hidden behind Kentoff's off-jilter vocals.  The more you pay attention (headphones help), the more you start to hear the creative production flourishes and masterful instrumentation.

-Harp

They're taking Brill Building songs and writing them in invisible ink, turning jazz standards into Twilight Zone episodes, turning folk songs into clouds of fog.

-PopMatters

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