Finding information about The Capstan Shafts on the internet is, well, downright challenging. We know this: The Capstan Shafts is the moniker under which Dean Wells records and releases his music. He hails from Lyndonville, Vermont and has performed live just a handful of times. Insanely prolific, Wells has released somewhere around 24 EPs and full-lengths since 2004, sometimes on his own Ladde...
I completely fell for Environ Maiden, a 29-song agglomeration of the last year or so of Dean Wells' lo-fi output. It sounds like he's sort of a mad genius, holed up somewhere in Northern Vermont, recording six or seven new songs a day, little hooks and shards of melody buzzing around his head like black flies. But damn, this is the good stuff. Here's my review which ran today at Dusted. "De...
I completely fell for Environ Maiden, a 29-song agglomeration of the last year or so of Dean Wells' lo-fi output. It sounds like he's sort of a mad genius, holed up somewhere in Northern Vermont, recording six or seven new songs a day, little hooks and shards of melody buzzing around his head like black flies. But damn, this is the good stuff. Here's my review which ran today at Dusted. "De...
If there was ever an heir apparent to Guided By Voices' lo-fi ways, it's Dean Wells' The Capstan Shafts. Coming in at a little over 2 minutes, this is one of the Shafts' longer songs.
Finding information about The Capstan Shafts on the internet is, well, downright challenging. We know this: The Capstan Shafts is the moniker under which Dean Wells records and releases his music. He hails from Lyndonville, Vermont and has performed live just a handful of times. Insanely prolific, Wells has released somewhere around 24 EPs and full-lengths since 2004, sometimes on his own Ladde...