The Capstan Shafts

About the artist

The Capstan Shafts is the musical project of Vermont native Dean Wells. Renowned for his prolific output, Wells is a musical Bukowski, with songs like the old drunk's short stories: low on length and conventional form, but highly literary and extremely satisfying. His albums have been released through a number of labels, including Kittridge, Asaurus Records, Abandoned Love Records, Fall of the West Records, Yellow Mica Recordings. His newest release is a part-compilation album through Rainbow Quartz Records.

Top songs

Sleepcure Theory Advancer
Everyone Plants Trees
Middles of June
61 Sideburns
The Trilateralist Told You Not To
Most Cultures Were Wrong
Signature Car Funk
Orpheus In His Underware
Bluejean V. Debs
Quiet Wars

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right on the malthus
The Small Of The Back The Crimewave
I Don't Mind You Dragging Me Down
Carbon Nuetral Enterprise
Magical Dance Number Scene
Anthropecene stealers
American Volume
Defenstration Makes Good Neighbors
Sunshine Profligate
Aching Tiny Everywheres
Polyestershines
the dig perpetual
Our Southern Ambitions
Use The Poets As Barricades
The Failure Of History
Wilds of Gloryville
Flip Cup Casualties
Griefseedling
Drop Dead Innocuous
Sincere As A Windchime
The Day You Called Me Pretty
The Origin of Rain
Fairweather Triumphalist
The Capstan Shafts - Quiet Wars
Trouble Peddling
The Giving Earth And Her Oils Of Love
The Ballad Of Kid Butane
The Complete History Of Greenland
Vegans and Meteors
Little Burst Of Sunshine
Elected Head Of Her Anarchist group
Heart Your Eat Out
degenerate era sweetheart
One Of Us Should Be Further Away
Asymptonic Freedom
Disko Bay (Good Years Left)
My Family Was Welsh, I'm Just Tired
Gods Favorite Foreigner
Kiss-You Advocacy
The Devil's Gazebo
What used to become you (now befalls you)
she's kick people
Let Your Head Get Wrong
The Flowering Universe Confounds
Snakeskin Belt Through Loose Hoops
Can't You Tell A Slow Burn Woo When You Ignore One?
the onetime milwaukee suicide
Better Get a Dream Out of This
Hip to the Sweet Blue World Again
Northern Me!
how could China fail?
Sick of Green
Phase Appraisals
Hip/Misguided
Chandelier of Bad Ideas
Good Riddence, Euridice
"Lauren Behold" (A Discussion with a Stripper Over Canadian Style Health Care)
Days from Work
your alone has so many more people in it
low ceilings for bedhoppers
She Can't Stand the Quiet (Unless It's Me Shutting Up)
I Don't Like The Movies
hearts to the fore, we storm loves castle
Petals On An Austin Rose
Class War Tease
Versus the Sad Cold Eventually
Love Pundits Bright Future
Your Wasted Is a Talent Here
A heart that never flies
Personals Surfer
pick your dystopia
Successfully Into You
Grindcore Tribals
Carbon Neutral Enterprise
From Revelation Skirts
Get Honest
Her Novel 'Canal Zone Poetry'
boy to take you nowhere
Favorite Eco-Terrorist
red scarcity
little world saver
Lessthreatening Day
saddlebags and the age of jesus
Girl to Scoff at World's Ills
Behemoth To A Flame
The Giddy Tramps Marching Orders
The Strategy Of Daylight
Sarasota Vs. The Concrete Poets
Cruel Streak Andes
The Hell With The Days Again

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