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Cap'n Jazz: Burritos , 6. Burritos Man With Gun, was their only album. The double-disc Analphabetapolothology collects all of the material recorded by Cap'n Jazz before VonBohlen went on to form Promise Ring. A Portable Model Jade Tree, was the true manifesto of that post-rock style that shuns the edgier, sharper harmonies of Don Caballero and almost reaches out to the Palace Brothers ' anti-folk.

Others are purely impressionistic vignettes, although of a skewed and ugly kind Anne Aviary , Post-Coitus Rock , the brief guitar instrumental Caliban that occasionally degenerate in abstract, free-form and dissonant jamming the lengthy Count To A Thousand. The songs that more closely approach the traditional song format The Hands , Romulans are also the weakest.

The notable exception is How Wheeling Feels , which employs crazy samples of ordinary sounds, an unsually steady and loud rhythm and spastic singing.

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Not everything on this album is fully developed, but what succeeds is already impressive. How Memory Works Jade Tree, continued in that direction but introducing more varied elements. To've Had Two Of is the most lyrical of their rambling and sparse folk ballads, the strings and the guitar parodying a classical madrigal. A Party Able Model Of is a close second, a piano-based dirge that lets the strings float eerily like in a Ligeti piece.

The hypnotic strumming of White Out sits at the opposite end of the spectrum, completely devoid of emotion although full of tension. The six-minute A Pale Orange is a cybernaut's journey around the extreme periphery of kraut-rock and electronic music. The band's skills at assembling alien textures also shine in Osmosis Doesn't Work. A visceral, rocking, quasi-techno This Life Cumulative and the gasp catchy A Name show that, despite appearances, there is still life in their universe.

Gin And Platonic rises majestically from a chaos of random notes to a Television -like intensity. Live in Chicago Jade Tree, is not a live album.