The Capsules - Someone for Everyone

The Capsules are a shoegaze band with not one, but two Sheilds in it. So this is going to be twice as good as My Bloody Valentine was right? It stands to reason, I mean My Bloody Valentine only had one Shields (Kevin) in it, so The Capsules have to be incredible. Well… unfortunately Jason and Julie Shields of The Capsules have no blood relation to Kevin, and furthermore, it seems they have little stylistic relation either. To start off, they took the whole druggy vibe out of shoegaze. That’s kind of like taking the blues out of the blues. It’s not that you have to do tons of mind bending drugs to create shoegaze (although I would imagine it’d help), but at least give us the impression that you did. In this void of once-psychedelic bliss, they placed overly sweet husband/wife pop not unsimilar to Mates of State. Now don’t get me wrong I am not knocking holy matrimony. It’s just that there is a time and place for a lot of things, and I am going to go ahead and assert that this is not the one for it. There’s no crying in baseball, and there’s no husband/wife pop in shoegaze. It might have worked if they didn’t take so many aspects of shoegaze while leaving so many other aspects out. There was enough to make it sound like shoegaze, but really, really weird shoegaze...and weird bad, not weird interesting. The music is alright, and the vocals are alright; everything is more or less alright really. Someone for Everyone was just produced in such a way that leaves it sounding just far too polished and precise to be a shoegaze album. Think of John Mayer deciding to get married and start a shoegaze band with his new wife. Well, probably not that bad but in that vein at least. [www.thecapsules.net]