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• Artist: The Capitol City Dusters
• Album: Rock Creek
• Label: Dischord
• Year of Release: 2002
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2003-03-27

Although not a completely new band, (first recorded material arose around 1996), the Capitol City Dusters are really making a big splash with their newest release Rock Creek. In 2001 The Dusters holed up in Phase Studios to come up with what we know as Rock Creek and it is the first release that they have put out exclusively on Dischord. Previously they had piggy backed Dischord with their own Superbad label. Rock Creek is the sound of a very mature band that has all the right ingredients. They are big on melody but aren’t afraid to tweak things just left of center for a new take on things. The album starts out with this reviewers favorite track “Superimposed� which is very strict and Fugazi-ish. The have really taken the term post-hardcore to an extreme. There are catchy tracks on Rock Creek like “Signal Sound (e2)� but Capitol City Dusters like to rough things up around the edges. Take “Cancer� for instance. There is a super melody throughout but the vocals are all over. This is one of my favorite releases so far this year.

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