Captains of Entropy Journey Into the Cosmos With New Track "Rosetta"
For Captains of Entropy, a song is merely the starting point of a creative spark. Mike Kanon, Reilly Wareham, and Jason Young often find their music expanding into something grander: visual motifs, imaginary realms, eclectic allusions, or whatever surfaces as the trio follows an impulse. Such is the case with “Rosetta,” an instrumental highlight from the group’s recently released digital EP, Beatrice Comes Home, along with the cosmic-themed video clip that accompanies it.
Formed during the pandemic in West Los Angeles, the band came together when Kanon (keyboards), Wareham (bass), and Young (drums) began convening for weekly improvisational sessions. There was no master plan. Spontaneity ruled the day, with grooves evolving, mutating, and occasionally venturing into surprising territory. Their debut album, The Flea & The Worm, cut at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, captured that ethos through mellow ’70s vibes and airier, more experimental stretches, all while preserving the camaraderie of three friends jamming together.
Young also credits the music he discovered via his father—U2, Talking Heads’ Remain In Light, and Paul Simon’s Graceland, among others—as influences. It’s more of a lens than a list, offering insight into how Captains of Entropy function. Driven by rhythmic curiosity and a willingness to wander, the band lets each arrangement uncover its own direction rather than shoehorning it into a fixed format.
“Rosetta” channels that instinct toward the stars, drawing its title from the Rosetta space probe. The EP’s name came about more circuitously. “Beatrice” initially served as a placeholder title for a musical sketch that eventually evolved into On Juno. That kind of repurposing fits a band whose ideas rarely stay put in their original form.
The “Rosetta” video splits its narrative between terrestrial and celestial realms. Scenes featuring the band inside Young’s residence are polished and filmic, rooting the tale in a familiar reality. When they blast off, the aesthetic shifts dramatically. Cardboard cutouts, costumed figures, DIY sets, and a spacecraft assembled in a buddy’s garage take center stage, lending the outer-space segments a handcrafted, analog sci-fi charm.
Matthew Mourgides helmed the domestic scenes and devised the concept around the push-pull of monotony and liberation. “The music immediately gave me this feeling of repetition and escape, of being trapped in the rhythms of everyday life while dreaming of something bigger,” he notes. “I wanted the three band members to almost feel like fragments of the same person, moving through this endless routine, until the world they’ve been dreaming about starts breaking through and eventually becomes their reality.”
Without lyrics to spell things out, that transition drives the narrative: three musicians navigating the mundane until the vision in their minds starts to materialize around them.
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