Monotreme Rec. 
Picastro : Red Your Blues (CAN,2001)**°
The sound of Picastro’s full release presents itself a kind of underground indie rock style with distorted electric guitar, amplified guitar, cello, vocal humming and a few times more straight forward singing, drums, with a somewhat dark cry-with-me emotionality, all down to minor key’s, full of bitter sadness. The instrumental accompaniment fits well to create, for the first couple of songs, a candle-light darkened room atmosphere for them. Some songs and the instrumental “Night of the long knives” have more distorted guitars, which I find less pleasant to hear. The music is sad and dark enough, and with balanced smooth rhythm and sound, for me this fits as its most expressive. A couple of songs are more heading into underground moods.
The band has played shows with Godspeed Black Emperor, Mick Turner (of The Dirty Three), Smog, Elliot Smith, Cat Power, Herman Düne, Cerberus Shoal and Thee More Shallows, to give an idea to which bands they fit in style.
