"But Distractions Abound is the first new full length album from New York City based avant-space rockers Escapade since 2002's Rule #3. They did a split CD with Acid Mother's Temple the following year (see AI #26), and last year's If/Or was an archival release of the band's first ever performance from 1996 (see AI #31).
Throughout the album we're in deep space, with lots of krautrock influences and are continually reminded why Escapade describe themselves as "avant-space rock". "Partial Memory Occurrence" opens the set with steady but relentlessly pounding drumming at the forefront, accompanied by screeching acid guitars and atmospherics. The rhythmic pulse shifts a few times, with the drumming really guiding the direction of the music. "Coldth" is a spaced out, droning, krautrock-ish jam, with a great combination of searing acidic licks, ghostly, howling atmospherics and a strangely song-like melodic feel. Circle fans would love this. Escapade are similar in that they lay down repetitive rhythmic patterns that form the basis for high energy, darkly spacey jams, that draw on a number of influences, but are ultimately, and very uniquely, occupying their own place on the space/psych/kraut axis."
-via Aural Innovations