CUBANATE - Interference
Songs: 10  Time:  50:42
Cubanate strike back in 1998 with a brand new album and with a slightly different edge to their sound.  Still present are their coarse vocals, throttling guitar licks, and dense electronics, but what is different is their newly found love for breakbeat / drum -n- bass.  Interference is their new 10 track CD that fuses together these aforementioned elements into one complete, mind-numbing album.  Beginning with It and finishing with An Airport Bar, Interference abuses the listener with agitated rhythms, sand-paper vocals and a heavy mixture of electronics and guitars.  The drum -n- bass opening of It should immediately let you know that Cubanate has struck into a new musical territory.  Marc's testosterone filled, jock styled delivery plays well over top of the barrage of gritty guitars and massive percussion, creating an atmosphere full of brutality.  Isolation continues to tread on new ground, but this time with much less ferocity.  The breakbeat is much tamer, the guitars aren't quite as heavy, and the vocals are toned down.  The pace picks back up with 9:59, a rhythmic piece with less emphasis on the guitars and electronics and more emphasis on Marc's guttural vocals.  Ex is a smoother piece that aligns itself more with trip-hop trance than anything else.  Ex acts as a nice breather before heading back into the fierceness of tracks such as Other Worlds (a breakbeat / metal hybrid) and Voids (a techno song designed for the hidden jock in everyone.)  There really isn't any low point on the entire CD and the flow from song to song seems well thought out.  If you think Cubanate was hard before, you haven't heard anything yet.  Interference is their heaviest release to date and marks a new beginning for band that deserves all of the recognition they can (and will) get!
     
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Cubanate is:
Phil Barry / Marc Heal / Roddy Stone / Dave Bianchi