Don Caballero - American Don (full album - 2000) One of the greatest math rock albums ever. Produced by Steve Albini.

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Label: Touch And Go – tg218
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold
Country: US
Released: 2000
Genre: Rock
Style: Math Rock, Post Rock














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After the band had existed for nearly a decade and been a pioneering force in the burgeoning math rock scene of the 90’s, Don Caballero reinvented themselves in an album that has set the stage for the next 20 years of what math rock would grow into.

Recorded by Steve Albini at his famed Electrical Audio studio, the album sounds pristine, with Damon Che’s booming drums taking center stage with unconventional drum patterns interwoven into crafting a signature style that has remained a cornerstone influence in math rock drumming since its release.

Slimming down from a quartet to a trio, Ian Williams took the opportunity to incorporate heavy usage of guitar looping in composing guitar parts for the entirety of American Don, as well as ditching the use of heavily distorted guitars for jazz-sounding clean tones. This allowed Williams to put his guitar tapping skill base on full display, and to re-introduce tapping as an art form and compositional tool to a new generation of players.

No album paved the way more for the use of guitar tapping and complex odd-time drum patterns in math rock than Don Caballero’s magnum opus, American Don.