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Rating: It's like traveling through space while keeping your feet firmly on the ground. That's exactly the sensation you get from listening to "Jupiter," there's no escaping it. With this album, Cave In has shown us what a new path for hardcore can be, combining the genre's typical rigor with Radiohead-like atmospheres full of melancholy and, above all, very complex and dreamy compositions, for which it can be said that the influence of progressive rock bands like Yes is more than just a hypothesis.
This "Jupiter" is truly a great album. Released in 2000 by Hydrahead, it was hailed as a miracle by music critics, popularizing the term progressive to a certain kind of audience that has always viewed this genre with disdain, and even opposed and fought against it. The four guys from Boston demonstrate great intelligence and open-mindedness, good technical level and talent, and they release a rich and complete album that had a difficult creation due to the challenge of developing a large amount of ideas and integrating them into a hardcore context, but it is nonetheless a very evocative work. Listening to the hardness and power of their early work, it's hard to believe they are the same band: hardness and power are still present in this album, but they are used in a different way, more functional to the other elements, and channeled into the flow of the tracks to enhance their evocative capacity. Here and there, a synth peeks through, and the voice of singer Stephen Brodsky, absolutely convincing and poetic, also seems like an instrument with great evocative power. The peaks of the album are represented by "In The Stream Of Commerce" (with its dry drums juxtaposed to liquid and melancholic atmospheres), "Innuendo And Out The Other" (with its continuous variations that culminate in an extremely suggestive theme), and the fantastic "New Moon" (dreamy closing ballad of the album). Subsequently, Cave In continued to release albums of good quality, but none has the magic of "Jupiter".
An unfortunate experience with a major label may have slightly compromised their reputation, but this does not deny their importance as a reference point for the worldwide (post) hardcore scene. A bold, absolutely essential album.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Jupiter (03:17)
the metronome was wrong again
my heart has surely gone and skipped a beat
now the rhythm is all right
and i can understand your point of view
jupiter this city is so bright
the kind of light that spots your eyes with white
jupiter your beauty doesn't mind
to be the center of my universe
jupiter you're seemingly so right for me
your blood is sweet like wine
and until i run out of vine
i'll keep my seat on the edge of your mind
dead in the vine of love
well, visit me in my dreams tonight
i keep my seat on the edge
04 Innuendo and Out the Other (06:11)
Write a letter to yourself about yourself:
Boring us with every detail
Someday I'd like to land
- as bitter as I am -
Nothing affects me anymore
There's something when all the efforts
You have made are hiding in your room,
While everyone else,
Continues to stand
Exactly
Where I most belong
Innuendo
And out the other
We cast our lines in to an ocean
Of future cluttering its waters
Calling in more than we can swallow
There's something when all the efforts
You have made are hiding in your room,
While everyone else,
Continues to stand
Exactly
Where I most belong
Innuendo
And out the other
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