In The Bag: Cap Pas Cap

With last year's belter of a single 'We Are Men' placing Cap Pas Cap firmly ahead of the rest of the Dublin synth-fond fold, the band have been busy recording and Ed (drums) tells Ragged Words a bit more about the "shape shifting motorik pop chants" we can expect on their debut album, set for release early next year.

What's it called?
At the moment the album is untitled but that’s all going to change over the next few weeks, most of the 14 tracks have working titles that will change too as the whole thing takes shape and starts to make sense.

Where, when and with whom was it recorded?
The album began taking shape in January this year, we spent the first 3 months of the year self recording and deep in pre production, shaping the music in our rehearsal space, creating new demos and completely reworking older previously unrecorded material, we really wanted the songs to be quite structured and resolved by the time we approached the proper recordings.

After some initial recording with Al O’Connell in March (who has previously worked with The Rapture, Black Strobe, Big Pink) we began working with Dublin producer/musician Andrew ‘Rooster’ Rooney (Twinkranes) in June.

We were extremely lucky to be able to have use of an unbelievable recording location, Ashtown House, a run down haunted 18th century Gandonesque gothic mansion on the outskirts of the city. Friends of ours were house sitting the property and allowed us to move there for 10 days in July, set up and record the album. Rooster was very keen on the idea and we all moved in and worked there for a solid week, day & night, recording huge amounts of material. We set up in a number of huge rooms, borrowed lots of vintage synths and managed to capture some incredible sounds and raw atmospherics there.

We finished in Ashfield House and took a break from recording to perform at Oxegen and Electric Picnic and some other shows. We then took the recordings to Red Lab Studios in Dublin and spent the last few weeks mixing and working on additional recordings with Rooster. We’re now at a point where we feel we have 10 or maybe 12 songs that will make the album.

What can we expect?
Hyperactive shape shifting motorik pop chants, space rock, pounding drums, psychedelic fuzzed up drones, no wave led fizzing synths.

When's it due out?
Early 2010.

And when will it leak!?
December 2009

In A Ragged Word?
Ambitious