Brace yourselves, psych rock and garage blues enthusiasts! After a long hiatus, Liverpool-based rock n roll garage blues maestros The Cubical are back with a vengeance.
Hot off the heels of dropping their new single That Ain’t No Way To Get High and a summer tour across Spain and the Basque Country, the fellas are releasing the much anticipated fifth studio album Cut Me Like a Hog on esteemed Spanish vinyl label FOLC Re- cords on 8th November. This marks their first record since the critically acclaimed Blood Moon in 2017.
The Cubical have long been lauded for their innovative songwriting. Hailed by MOJO as “Genius!” and celebrated by Q Magazine as “simply not your average band,” The Cubical are once again shaking the foundations of modern rock n roll with their unmistakably unique sound.
Cut Me Like a Hog is a big sounding record of explosively performed songs with, according to US Glide Magazine, “one foot in the past and one foot in the future”. This is manifested in technicolour with opening track That Ain’t No Way To Get High – thought-provoking lyrics, a cacophony of horns, demonic blues-infused riffs, and tight vocal harmonies all served up with a Howlin Wolf/Tom Waits growl. The band’s trademark rock n roll intensity is expertly refreshed and evident in horn driven Motown tinged stomper Run It Off, maintaining their enigmatic and rhythmically hypnotic essence that has solidified their reputation across Europe over the years.
But be warned! The Cubical are no one trick ponies and evocatively poignant gothic noir of Forever in Your Past transports the listener to a smoke filled all night New York jazz bar, where the whisky is poured into the steaming coffee and the clarinet weaves its way through reverb soaked guitars. The senses are assaulted in a psychedelic shakedown of the Eugenics movement in title track Cut Me Like A Hog; “Mama signed me away!” the band shriek whilst the hell- scape guitars wail and twist around pounding drums. The listener is momentarily revived from the garage blues shock therapy by the atmospheric acoustic Night Falls before a tumultuous and anthemic end is offered from the wrong side of the tracks via the claustrophobic In The Barrio. After the last notes ring out it’s as if the listener has been immersed in a vivid and kaleidoscopic neighbourhood like no other, shaken, challenged but wanting more.
The Cubical make a triumphant return with new album Cut Me Like A Hog, out now on vinyl and digitally via FOLC Records and Ditto Music. Listen now on Spotify.