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Rubik WILL make your skin crawl at some point. This happens when you’re forced to peer too far into anything. Vertigo. It’s a curse, the knowing of another’s inner thoughts. Right after making you squirm, the band will lift you up with a cascade of melody. It’s a rollercoaster ride, vacillating between the micro- and macrocosmic.
Rubik’s self-produced second album, Dada Bandits, does a scary little high-wire dance between the intimate and the elephantine, the melodic and the noisy, the gorgeous and the hideous. They can be as withdrawn and obtuse as the artiest rock band out there and then bust out with a melodic hug potent enough to enclose the globe. Rubik can go from sounding like a well oiled, world-conquering machine to a broken down, cigarette encrusted bar piano.
The band offers the opportunity for a riot of (subjective) trainspotting, comparable to the most crate-centred DJ Shadow cut out there. The trick is that none of it is obvious at all and if you tell your friends, they’ll disagree. There are no facts. So if I tell you that to me Rubik takes the textures and atmospheres of TV on the Radio and marries them to the spiritual comfort of a Sufjan Stevens horn section, while spicing things up with a naïve melodic touch worthy of the Cure and then manages to rock out to the point of degenerating into noise, you are well within your rights to vehemently disagree. And you’ll be right, too, but so will I. One thing’s for sure, though. Dada Bandits can take more listens then you realize and continue to provide little revelations each time.
Rubik’s self-produced second album, Dada Bandits, does a scary little high-wire dance between the intimate and the elephantine, the melodic and the noisy, the gorgeous and the hideous. They can be as withdrawn and obtuse as the artiest rock band out there and then bust out with a melodic hug potent enough to enclose the globe. Rubik can go from sounding like a well oiled, world-conquering machine to a broken down, cigarette encrusted bar piano.
The band offers the opportunity for a riot of (subjective) trainspotting, comparable to the most crate-centred DJ Shadow cut out there. The trick is that none of it is obvious at all and if you tell your friends, they’ll disagree. There are no facts. So if I tell you that to me Rubik takes the textures and atmospheres of TV on the Radio and marries them to the spiritual comfort of a Sufjan Stevens horn section, while spicing things up with a naïve melodic touch worthy of the Cure and then manages to rock out to the point of degenerating into noise, you are well within your rights to vehemently disagree. And you’ll be right, too, but so will I. One thing’s for sure, though. Dada Bandits can take more listens then you realize and continue to provide little revelations each time.
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uphillracer wrote:
SUPERSHOUT!!!!!! album of the year!
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klopsick wrote:
There's only one (clap) Rubik!
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Aim0n4slokkPlz wrote:
this is so special... and great...
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beccahasmusic wrote:
i do love the finnish.
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airandseabattle wrote:
Amazing.
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Odessius wrote:
One of the worst bands I've downloaded in a while. I mean, not a single track was worth listening to again, it was pretty bad overall. Then again I had quite high expectations from the reviews I read about the band. Perhaps their new album will change my mind? I hope so!
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lei- wrote:
tag visual kei / j-rock band with Ｒｕｂｉｋ
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pickledelephant wrote:
You gotta love those Finnish musicians.
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warrenwheel wrote:
New album streaming over at Spinner Radio, liking what I hear so far
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OoWNED wrote:
Twoja Stara u niego klaszcze.
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rotflXD wrote:
co to za podróba?
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tapmak wrote:
great tracks. Keep the cubicle going. :)
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Wicepremier wrote:
A gdzie ,,Psalm dla Ciebie"? :(
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Necrae wrote:
Japanese band must be tagged ルービック
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kyandee_chan wrote:
how to tag japanese Rubik?
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airandseabattle wrote:
oohhhh man
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TionTheOne wrote:
I'm liking Dada Bandits so far but that is the most conceited artist description I've ever seen on last.fm
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Va5ik wrote:
Finland has good music: Rubik, Disco Ensemble...
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lassii wrote:
dada bandits may be my album of the year 2009 and at the moment one of my all time favourites.
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News
KEXP radio live today
21 Oct 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/rubikband
tune in at www.kexp.org for some live dada action, as Rubik will play a studio live gig at 2pm New York time (9pm Finnish time), and don't forget tomorrow's gig at Union Pool in Brooklyn at the Arts &. …
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Recent Activity
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djfinnfinn added Rubik to djfinnfinn’s library. yesterday evening
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moonwreath added Rubik to the lineup of Pstereo 2010 at Marinen. Monday evening
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Carponai and Silmael added Rubik to their libraries. Monday morning
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sakkapalamokkaa added Rubik to the lineup of Rubik at Klubi. Friday afternoon
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centipedejewels and mayunei added Rubik to their libraries. Friday morning
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Nocioni tagged Rubik with indie rock and finnish. Thursday morning
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Nocioni and mikku23 added Rubik to their libraries. Thursday morning
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Boomhauer wrote about Rubik in 40,000 tracks played!. last week
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offbeatxoddityx, termisss and diffuusiokeksi added Rubik to their libraries. last week
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pikkulotta tagged Rubik with ‘seen live’. 10 days ago
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