Quixote
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Quixote's first baby step began in 2007, with members Joe Stulpin (vocals/guitar) and Evan Murphy (drums/percussion) recording a friend for class. The two began jamming and slowly began bringing in friends and putting together their debut album in the dilapidated basement of a hair salon. Shuffling through a number of different line-ups during the recording process, including now electric-guitarist Anthony Valera who played bass on the album, they eventually completed the record then found the perfect fit with bass player Justin Demers. The band found a common tie that coalesced their individual music backgrounds and tastes, which invariably resulted in the fruition of an organized collision of sound.
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Tactfully incorporating simplistic rhythms and hallowed, organic instrumentation, Quixote's self-titled debut album is an array of diverse styles that cohesively mold together creating an album craftily flowing between epic highs and mellowed dips.
The album opens with the staccatoed punch of "Annunaki" and immediately you are on a fierce, unstoppable ride. Flowing into the subtle twang of the violin opening in "Hubris," the song picks up with the energy of Gogol Bordello-esque horns, big band style drums, and the careening down slope of an electric guitar solo. Slowing down the tempo, "Owls" is a stripped down, folk breath of fresh air that leads into the aggressive rumble of "God Damn" which juxtaposes a slower accordion line against thundering drumbeats. The album ends with "Don't Hurt," an effects-infused blues thunderstorm, layering a mystical fog of guitar and airy samples described as displaying the "duality of a dysfunctional relationship both metaphorically speaking and literally sounding," ending mid-sentence, ever so cunningly leaving you wanting more.
