The CaribbeanBest The Caribbean Albums Ranked

Verse by Verse

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7.8

“It's time for a new definition of the phrase "lounge music." Sure enough, this term seems appropriate enough for the genre it usually represents, but something tells me there's other music that begs for the genre name that doesn't recall sipping martinis under a slowly rotating disco ball, leaning on a bar in your leisure suit, and chatting it up with the dark-haired, pseudo-intellectual, all-too-”

History's First Know-It-All

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7.7

“I have nothing to say about an album that says nothing. Except that it says it all about itself, and is very crafty about saying it well. The Caribbean has always made serious pop without a purpose, built of sequences of unmatched chords, cobbled from lyrical scraps that mean nothing in and of themselves, but when combined mean less. Doing this in a compelling way is no small accomplishment, and i”

William of Orange - EP

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7.4

“It's not terribly often that a band's website is good enough to make me want to recommend it along with their music, but [The Caribbean's remarkably professional online domain](http://www.thecaribbeanisaband.com) is such a resoundingly brilliant sendup of a bland, mission statement-touting corporate website (replete with two generic employees mugging in the header and loads of meaningless business”

Discontinued Perfume

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7.3

“Five albums in, the Caribbean still have an ability to make conventional indie rock into something strange and hard to pin down.”

Plastic Explosives

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7.2

“This D.C. band wraps its tales of modern life-- office supplies, airport security, long-distance correspondence, and dayjob malaise-- in constantly shifting arrangements.”

Populations

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6.2

“Washington, D.C. band releases its fourth album, and it's another mix of unusual melodic structures and more typical rock arrangements.”