KADDISFLY - Set Sail The Prairie Review

Eclectic is the best word to describe Orgeon prog-rockers Kaddisfly. Within the first three tracks, the band covers everything from stadium rock to a hint of jazz, and that's only just the beginning. Far be it from the band to lock themselves into a box, Set Sail the Prairie, is an incredible musical journey through each month of the year full of lush instrumentals, smooth vocals and poetic lyrics....full text Maybe it's just the unconscious insecurities of the pop-punk years grappling with the realization that a generation wasted the better part of its youth mimicking throwaway, bubblegum bands that's led the punk underground to awkwardly embrace the prog-rock aesthetic: Over-conceptual, brain-rock sounds of everyone from The Mars Volta to Coheed and Cambria soothed a million consciences ashamed at the amount of love poured into acts like Blink 182, Sum 41 and My Chemical Romance, overcompensating for bubblegum with prog flights of fancy....full text However changing face Hopeless and Sub City Records may be, it's now slowly becoming clear they have the potential to collectively emerge as an outlet for creative, latter-era emo bands to express themselves in extended passages. We saw it first in Ever We Fall’s impressive debut full-length last year, We Are But Human, and now after a shaky debut Kaddisfly have settled into this niche…which actually isn’t such an easily pigeonholed niche....full text