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January 23-29, 2003 musicpicks The Caribbean
It's not surprising that The Caribbean's music is hard to pin down. So are its members. Ostensibly based in Washington, D.C., the quartet boasts members calling Baltimore and Naples, Fla., home, and is as likely to trade sound files over the Internet as to actually get together and rehearse. It's not surprising, then, that some of the songs on History's First Know-It-All (Endearing) sound as if they might have been assembled by a mad scientist with access to ProTools; clattering and swooshing sounds pop through the melody with the regularity of a whack-a-mole game. (Listening to the album on headphones is like being stalked by a particularly inventive ghost.) The piano ballads and falsetto vocals give it up, though -- these mad scientists are romantics at heart, trying to cobble together their ideal mates out of debris and bric-a-brac, and never quite making the pieces fit. Fri., Jan. 24, 10 p.m., $7, with King of Prussia and Method and Result, Doc Watson's, 216 S. 11th St., 215-922-3427. 
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