Boston's Cave In jumped to RCA and the world of big-time promotion for Antenna, but it's satisfying to hear that their intelligently warped sound has kept its teeth in the transition. Since its inception in 1995, the band has experimented with bizarre free jazz, hair-raising thrash metal, lengthy progressive rock epics, and sweeping proto-ambient guitar modernism. For Antenna, the band worked with the versatile Rich Costey, who has produced everyone from Rival Schools and Audioslave to Jurassic 5 and Philip Glass. Unlike too many major-league producers, Costey didn't grade off Cave In's sound in a quest for popular appeal. Instead, he tightened the confines of the songs without scrimping on Cave In's taste for lyrical and guitar grandeur, or the occasional twinge of metal. Ever since the great leap forward of 2000's Jupiter, Cave In has drawn comparisons to Radiohead. It's certainly true (Antenna's Inspire owes a large, large debt to Paranoid Android), but it's Foo Fighters' synthesis of metal, punk, and pop that might be Antenna's biggest touchstone. In fact, the single Anchor sounds like Foo Fighters covering an imaginary track from OK Computer. The comparison runs deeper. Before his re-emergence as the Foos' fearless leader, Dave Grohl was, of course, Nirvana's drummer. But even before that, Grohl played in Washington, D.C., hardcore outfit Scream. The stylistic twists and turns of Grohl's career somewhat mirror those of Cave In, at least in the sense that both the band and the man have always been willing to seek out new sonic adventures. Grohl must have realized this; Cave In toured Europe with Foo Fighters in early 2003.

1		Stained Silver
2		Inspire
3		Joy Opposites
4		Anchor
5		Beautiful Son
6		Seafrost
7		Rubber and Glue
8		Youth Overrided
9		Breath of Water
10		Lost In The Air
11		Penny Racer
12		Woodwork

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