Picastro has received comparisons to Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Smog, The For Carnation, and Dirty Three.

Metal Cares is Picastro’s debut album for Polyvinyl and the band’s second full-length.

Commanding influences as varied as gypsy field recordings, Greek rembetika, Russian folksongs, Faces, and Black Sabbath, Toronto’s Picastro craft starkly discordant soundscapes where murmured vocals cascade alongside a rich panorama of dissonance and string-laden dynamics.

Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy, Arcade Fire) plays violin.