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CAYETANA – ” NPR CMJ show Live in New York “

Posted: January 17, 2015 in MUSIC
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The CMJ Music Marathon, which takes place in clubs across New York City each autumn, began as a way for college-radio programmers to discover new acts for their airwaves. It was in that spirit that NPR Music chose the Philly rock band Cayetana to kick off its recent CMJ show.
Augusta Koch, Allegra Anka and Kelly Olsen are already underground stars in the city of brotherly love, but their audience is poised to grow massively on the strength of Cayetana’s stellar debut album, “Nervous Like Me”. And, as you’ll see here, the band’s got the whole “live” thing down pat.
Like fellow Philly musician Waxahatchee, Cayetana writes short songs about longing. The subject matter varies from love to nostalgia to simply making sense of life in your early 20s, but it almost always hits home — and, more specifically, the heart.

SET LIST
Miss Thing – 0:48
Madame B – 4:20
Serious Things Are Stupid – 7:51
Dirty Laundry – 10:12
Black Hills – 13:02
Mountain Kids – 15:31
Favorite Things – 19:15
South Philly – 21:52
Hot Dad Calendar – 25:32
Scott Get The Van, I’m Moving – 29:06

The band Are
Augusta Koch, guitar, lead vocals
Allegra Anka, bass
Kelly Olsen, drums

CAYETANA – ” Scott Get the Van I’m Moving “

Posted: January 17, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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In Cayetana, there’s a point where songwriting gets so specific, so personal and nuanced, that it all of a sudden transcends idiosyncracy and becomes universal. That’s what makes Cayetana’s debut LP “Nervous Like Me” such a winning record. Whether the experiences are her own, imagined or some combination of the two, frontwoman Augusta Koch tells lyrical stories you instantly relate to. Stories of emotional dependency and toxic friendships (“Serious Things are Stupid,” “Dirty Laundry”), of the beautiful transience of twentysomething life (“Scott Get The Van, I’m Moving,” “South Philly”), of discovering empowerment in solitude (“Madame B”). But it’s not just the subject matter that makes this a great album – it’s the hooks. These are some catchy-as-hell songs, most clocking in around or under three minutes; most moving at a brisk pace, propelled by Kelly Olsen’s aggressive drums and Allegra Anka’s wandering, New Order-ish bass counterpoints; most featuring endlessly sing-along-able passages. The title, “Nervous Like Me”, is also apt.

The album has a nervous energy undercurrent in the frenzied drumbeats and jagged guitars and Koch’s tender, quivering delivery. You can feel that tension, that uncertainty and fear, and in her words she spells out explicity why it exists. Even though you haven’t specifically been in the same place, you know how she feels, you can relate. And that is the power of strong, honest songwriting.

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CAYETANA – ” Scott Get The Van I’m Moving “

Posted: January 10, 2015 in MUSIC
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Cayetana – “Nervous Like Me” (Tiny Engines) – There’s a point where songwriting gets so specific, so personal and nuanced, that it all of a sudden transcends idiosyncracy and becomes universal. That’s what makes Cayetana’s debut LP “Nervous Like Me” such a winning record. Whether the experiences are her own, imagined or some combination of the two, frontwoman Augusta Koch tells lyrical stories you instantly relate to. Stories of emotional dependency and toxic friendships (“Serious Things are Stupid,” “Dirty Laundry”), of the beautiful transience of twentysomething life (“Scott Get The Van, I’m Moving,” “South Philly”), of discovering empowerment in solitude (“Madame B”). But it’s not just the subject matter that makes this a great album – it’s the hooks. These are some catchy-as-hell songs, most clocking in around or under three minutes; most moving at a brisk pace, propelled by Kelly Olsen’s aggressive drums and Allegra Anka’s wandering, New Order-ish bass counterpoints; most featuring endlessly sing-along-able passages. The title, Nervous Like Me, is also apt. Our contributing writer Bryne Yancey pointed that the album has a nervous energy undercurrent in the frenzied drumbeats and jagged guitars and Koch’s tender, quivering delivery. You can feel that tension, that uncertainty and fear, and in her words she spells out explicity why it exists. Even though you haven’t specifically been in the same place, you know how she feels, you can relate. And that is the power of strong, honest songwriting.

CAYETANA – ” Nervous Like Me “

Posted: December 23, 2014 in MUSIC
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Cayetana don’t fit in with the most notorious Philadelphia rock bands to emerge of late like  The War on Drugs, Kurt Vile and the Violators, or Strand of Oaks. But, what the three punk rock mentality purists in Cayetana have in common with their city mates is a debt to the past and willingness to push beyond revivalism in order to create music that sounds necessary

Those competitors are clear from the opening seconds of “Nervous Like Me”: But after the first verse of “Serious Things Are Stupid”, the three-piece stomps on its distortion pedals, Cayetana place themselves apart from these contemporaries. They are direct and able to create simple pleasures both in the quiet-loud-quiet variety and the loud-all-the-way-through kind. For a band whose bio boasts about their novice musical abilities.

That being said, not all songs are created equally on Nervous Like Me. Despite the tongue-in-cheek title of the previously released “Hot Dad Calendar”, the song seems to literally be a matter of life and death, with singer Augusta Koch singing the song’s refrain with loose desperation: “You really want to make it out alive.” Likewise, “Scott Get the Van, I’m Moving” finds Koch’s voice hoarse and frustrated. There’s a point on the album’s opening song where Koch even lets out a squeak that is soft and fragile. All these moments on quite good songs humanize Koch and work to create an effect that is quite surprising on a pop punk debut: They allow listeners to care about Koch and care about Cayetana.

Keeping the collection from being deemed one-note is “Favorite Things”, the album’s slowed-down, nostalgic, romantic transporter. It’s a predictable turn for an album full of amped-up ragers, but its predictability doesn’t make it inessential, as the band needed to show they weren’t a one-trick pony. It helps that it is sandwiched between two of the album’s best moments for a run that masks the fact that the album sort of limps to a close rather than sprints to a triumphant finish. This is another difference between Cayetana and the other Philly bands named above. Of course, none of them recently released debuts. In fact, none of them ever released debuts as good as Nervous Like Me, period.