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  The Caribbean - The Go From Tactical
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The Caribbean hail from Washington DC, fiction, bad jokes, and basement ingenuity. Grown from DC classics The Townies and Smart Went Crazy, The Caribbean crafted and branded themselves into a strain of experimental pop initiated by The Zombies, The Pretty Things, and Scott Walker, and subsequently stretched thin by the likes of Death Cab For Cutie and The Shins. Hovering between here and there are The Caribbean, the most deliberate of bands, perfecting broken amps, cat accompaniments, and stories anybody could tell if they just happened to notice the world happening.

Following The Caribbean's album History's First Know-It-All on Germany's Tomlab, Hometapes released their William of Orange EP in 2004. This whet palettes for last year's album Plastic Explosives, also on Hometapes; with songs among song-ish interludes, the band created a musical narrative (along with producer Chad Clark) that is conceptually complicated and rockingly simple. They are currently working on their new album, to be released in 2007 and to feature collaboration with Hometapes artist/musician Nick Butcher whom they toured with in 2006.