Album Notes

"But Distractions Abound" is Escapade's follow up release to their 2003 split CD with Acid Mothers Temple, "A Thousand Shades of Grey". The band's hypno-rock explorations, begun on 2002's "Rule #3" and furthered on the split CD, are continued here for a set of music which although based on improvisation, often instead sounds like it's composed. This is because of the band's tendency to work as a collective unit in search of a unified musical statement rather than as a bunch of instrumentalists trading solos. While their earlier music focused on ever mutating underlying musical structures, their most recent music utilizes building blocks of repetition and drones that have a remarkable amount of detail creeping below the surface. The result is a solid release of modern psych music that the listener can trance out to, but also stands up equally well to attentive listening.