this ain't for everyone.

It's been four years since PAS/CAL released their first in a series of two introductory EPs totaling eleven pitch-perfect pop songs just delicate enough to still have no trouble burrowing deep inside your eardrums and exploding inside your brain with fireworks of equal parts candy and warm buttered homemade bread. That was one sentence. Count it! Mastermind Casimer Pascal and his six uber-talented band mates have spent much of the time since working on a full-length release, "Citizens Army Uniform." I was introduced to these magicians of feel-good nearly one and one-half years ago. I refer to a now (among a few) infamous roadtrip to Detroit by way of Chicago from Cleveland. This trip included five friends, blood-water, not-fourteen hours of not-sleep in a not-warm van, public library primping, three million inside jokes, two smile-inducing performances by Mates of State, two jaw-dropping introductory (to me) performances by Bishop Allen, my first Make Believe experience, and a knock-out performance in Detroit by PAS/CAL (starting off with the almost too appropriate "This Ain't For Everyone.")
PAS/CAL has been documenting their progress on "Citizens Army Uniform" for the better part of a year at their very own blog. Apparently it's near completion. One can only hope.
For now though, you can download "The Bronze Beached Boys (Come on, Let's Go)" and "What happened To The Sands?" from their (say it with me...) MySpace page from "The Handbag Memoirs" and "Oh Honey, We're Ridiculous," respectively. You can also take advantage of my kindness as I'm offering you three tracks from the very same EPs (one is a perfect in-betweener for your next mix), and a validation that your desperation to hear the actual song "Oh Honey, We're Ridiculous" is not unnecessary and certainly not without company. Fingers crossed for C.A.U. by Fall.



PAS/CAL's "This Ain't For Everyone"
& "Grown Men Go Go"
from The Handbag Memoirs

PAS/CAL's "Bem, Please Come Home"
from Oh Honey, We're Ridiculous

Anybody else hear Vince Guaraldi's "Linus and Lucy" (as played here by a jangly-wangly banjo) in "Bem...?"