Ben Caplan's voice is the product of a smokers cough and a desire to be different. The album ranges anywhere from a crowded room to the sounds of a desolate hallway. Extensive and vast, Ben Caplan & The Casual Smokers sing rugged and romantic ballads about the peeling away of feeling and the wasted years spent in the wrong direction. But as each song comes to it's epic end, and as each instrument introduced in the beginning is re-infused in a blended mess of perfection, we find a sense of truth and understanding. Reminiscent of an early Tom Waits, Ben Caplan & the Casual Smokers may just be the next BIG thing. Feel Flows~
"My name is Daniel McBride, 17 years of age, and Ablutophobia EP is the result of 9 months on-and-off recording in a tiny little studio I've managed to set up in my bedroom. I composed and performed all the songs by myself, borrowing various instruments to try and live up to the ideas I had in my head - an endeavour that saw me teach myself cello and euphonium, simply because I'd decided they were essential to the song. Feel Flows~
