Cave In - Jupiter

This album can make anyone happy if they let it. Cave In's latest full length, Jupiter, is hardly reminiscent of any of their earlier albums (which could give the average human a heart attack). Cave In has grown up a lot. Only 8 tracks fill this album, but each track could be easily split up into 3 more. Superpower melodic space rock would be one of the many ways to describe this album (not the band, just the album), with "sounds like they're in a gym" drums, huge guitar sounds, and vocals that creatively float atop pleasant and thick chordal experiments. This album pulls no complaints from me aside from the instrumental track which doesn't impress as much as the rest of the disc, but holds it's hypnotic place near the end of the album. Deathly starving Failure fans will find refuge in the huge and climatic sound of the album overall, while each song by itself could easily stand alone as a hit, if the radio wasn't in such a simplistic rut. The positive-triprock chorus towards the end of "In the Steam of Commerce" will shake the brains and expand the soul, while the 9-minute epic, "Requiem", stays quite interesting for the length it is. A huge and powerful, pleasant rock savior is what Jupiter is. Vocals that don't shy away from Fauceto, thickness that works on you without all the "chunk, chunk", and hook after hook of hokeyless melody that could have found itself on the radio, but won't now because of what is "in". If you ever decide to listen to the older Cave In, you might find yourself surprised - it's basically shred. They fact that Cave In CAN do prog-rock, but chooses to write something ultimately melodic and rock 'n roll, it makes you like the album even more. I don't want to rate this album too high, but it's been on repeat in my changer for weeks, and I still find myself sick with goosebumps in certain lines. [www.cavein.net]