"As the purveyor of brainy, muscular instrumental rock, Don Caballero spent most of its early years labeled the "Geeks from Pittsburgh who don't sing." Now that the rest of the indie-rock world has warmed up to instrumental rock (see the popularity of Tortoise, et al.), Don Caballero reemerges from hiatus with its third full-length, What Burns Never Re-turns. Staying ahead of the learning curve, the band employs little of the muscle that marked its earlier efforts, instead adopting a more high-brow, abstract approach to its music making. The band is not improvis-ing per se, but creating meticulously arranged, post-Kind Crimson-like songs that attack odd time signatures. Stunning in its acrobatic musician-ship, intriguing in its relentless experimentalism, What Burns_ is indeed a welcome return." - Tad Hendrickson, CMJ New Music Report // "The follow up to 1995's monolithic "Don Caballero 2", "What Burns Never Returns" is a study in industrial-strength grace, like some archaic machine heaving in exorable arabesques. The metallic guitars and grinding rhythm section interlock with mechanistic precision, yet a very human friction shoots sparks of real beauty." - AJ Sutton, Billboard // "What superior minds conceived these eight amazing instrumentals, at once impossibly complex and yet powerfully direct, and what mere men have the strength and discipline to perform them? _ There are no drug-gy lyrics or samples or ironic reappropriations of outré instruments here - just thrilling purity and exhilarating single-mindedness." - The Sunday Times UK