Caspa - I Hate Caspa EP Review

Caspa, for those that are unaware, is basically Spanish for dandruff. It is also a San Antonio based neurotic, synth punk band that could care less about me, you or any little white flakes that may fall on your crusty black band shirts! Caspa is comprised of members from other local groups such as Amygdala, Ill Informed, Nocturnal Prose, Faulty Cognitions W.I.M.P, Yolquetza and Pallbexar. This is their debut 12" EP and it's out now on Total Agency Records, in fact this is Total Agency #001! I guess good things can still grow and flourish in these days of bitter air and salinated earth. 



Caspa the band are hardly little white flakes blowing in the summer breeze, being brushed off with ease. In fact, if we're going to compare this band with any kind of epidural condition, I'd say they're more like a sun burn. Looking to sear and sever the nerve endings of modern society and our bloated, privileged lives as we know it. They're here to damage, destroy and reshape the robotic ways we have come to serve, honor and obey our almighty corporate masters. Some might call Caspa a simple synth-punk band, but I don't see them that way at all. Yes they do have synthesizers in their music, but first and foremost Caspa are a punk rock band similar to The Ills, Black Fork or Naked Aggression. The synthesizers swirl around the songs, trying not to get run over, jabbing, slicing and drawing blood when they can. Lyrically, Caspa take on the woes of living in a contemporary society that has nearly snuffed out the flame of humanity. In a land where such things as monotony, gluttony, and complacency are not given a second thought, Caspa are hear to burn it down. They'll do it with a smug smirk on their face and you along with it if you get in the way. 

12" EP available now from Total Agency Records: totalagency.bandcamp.com