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The salad days of Clarias
What’s the quickest way to link Nickelback to Kanye West? It may be via a band from Boston named Clarias, who’ve shared the stage with both. This should give you two clues about their music: (a) it can and will get epic on you and (b) it demands you shake whatever it is you’re working with.
For a band who started off as college rock, Clarias is as mercurial as hell. Take, for example, the song Wonder/Wander off their new album The Days of The Getaway. What starts off as funk rock on hyper speed, complete with Doobie Brothers-worthy riffs, segues into frenetic pop rock with guitars that rear up and demand that you dance, like RIGHT NOW. Then there’s WINOK (an acronym for What If No One Knows), a poly-rhythmic, multi-part rock odyssey that shimmers and soars. Fans of Dave Matthews Band will find plenty to like here. Oddly enough, Clarias hasn’t played with those guys yet. Maybe next tour.
