Caveman - Never Going Back

Music 5 years ago

Caveman - Never Going Back

Otero War exists in two alternate universes: the first is a sci-fi dystopia helpfully described by Caveman on their website and illustrated by Marc Ericksen, the guy behind the cover of *Mega Man 2 and, more importantly, Twitter cult favorite Bad Dudes.

But that’s not the real story here. Like the two Caveman albums before it, Otero War could be an accessory to a generic and fictionalized network-tv retelling of “indie rock in the 2010s.” And as with the soundtracks from any season of “Nashville,” “Empire,” or “Vinyl,” Otero War *is a collection of interchangeable, time-stamped simulacra that’s enjoyable on a superficial level, but mostly exists for the greater discussion of “who is this one based on?”