{"id":11569,"date":"2014-03-27T21:20:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T02:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bostonsurvivalguide.net\/wordpress\/?p=11569"},"modified":"2014-04-02T21:20:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T02:20:42","slug":"casper-the-cookies-dingbats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bostonsurvivalguide.net\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/casper-the-cookies-dingbats\/","title":{"rendered":"Casper & The Cookies: Dingbats"},"content":{"rendered":"
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credit: Casper & The Cookies<\/p><\/div>\n

In their fourth album Dingbats<\/a><\/strong>, released back in February (on Wild Kindness and Stuff Records), Casper & The Cookies<\/a><\/strong> (from Athens, Georgia) seem to be assessing the passage of time and their own history, looking back over a particular course of events both musically and lyrically. Could the title be self-criticism at a lifetime of poor choices? Or an assessment of others? Whatever, it’s a wild ride of musical styles, from jaded pop intelligentsia (“Improvvisamente Ardito”) to a glam-goth cabaret ditty about popping speed (“Amphetamines”) to a sweet psychotic tale about a love obsession (“Omni”) to a lovely English folk ballad about a murder (“White Noise”).<\/p>\n

Jason NeSmith (vocals\/guitar\/keys), Kay Stanton (bass\/vocals\/keys), AJ Griffin (vocals\/keys) and Gregory Sanders (drums) are currently in and\/or have traveled through an impressive lineage — Of Montreal, Olivia Tremor Control, The New Sound of Numbers and Supercluster. They’ve toured with The Apples in Stereo, were Daniel Johnson’s backing band and opened for the B-52s’ 34th anniversary show in Athens.<\/p>\n

Their eerie contemplation about touring life, “Lemon Horses,” reads like a hazy, confusing dream, at some uneasy place between wakefulness and sleep. They filmed what I can only call a concept video, and one that gave me a Twin Peaks queasiness, I might add.<\/p>\n