Playing between Ceramic Animal and Heartless Bastards at the Yeti day party on Friday is this band from Spain. David Fricke of Rolling Stone says this about them when he saw them at SXSW in 2009:
‘It was only 9 p.m. on opening night when I hit my first pay dirt of this year's SXSW in Austin: Capsula a kinetic trio from Bilbao, Spain — singer-guitarist Martin Guevara and bassist Coni Duchess, the band's founding couple, are originally from Argentina — who were supposed to be obsessed with the Velvet Underground (according to a newspaper preview) but were actually a high-velocity union of the Cramps and the Who, coated in corroded glam. Guevara attacked his guitar with a serious case of Pete Townshend, and drummer Alberto Diez was an improbable mix of Keith Moon and the Velvets’ Maureen Tucker: flash with heartbeat. In the last song of the set, a furious space-out that sounded like the Who doing Pink Floyd's “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun,” Guevara swallowed his mike Lux Interior-style and scraped his guitar strings along the edge of the stage. You don't get those visuals with Capsula's new album, Rising Mountains (BCore), but you get the idea — and everything I heard.’
They have also played Austin Psych Fest in 2013 and the Austin Chronicle had this to say: ""These aren't musicians playing at a band, they're a fabulous gilded snake, writhing on a big stage while plying seismic garage rock."
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