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Here
is another curveball from the nice folks from The End.
When I heard the name Goes Cube I imagined this would
be one of those math metal bands with their nonsensical
monikers, never ending breakdowns, insipid songwriting
and more than tiresome growls. But I was far from it,
far as fuck from the sound this Brooklyn trio fosters.
The truth is, no matter which was you look at it, you
won’t get this band straight. And that’s not because it
is hard to know where they are coming from, but because
they are indeed coming from so many places I’d need more
paragraphs than I care to write about any band just to
box them in.
To sum
Another Day Has Passed in one sentence; this is an excellent
fucking record. Yes, don’t let their beards, boney frames and
black rimmed glasses fool you. Goes Cube is a metalhead’s wet
dream. Man, they look like they don’t care but they rock like
their lives depend on everything from Swedish death metal, to
the hardest-hitting alt-rock imaginable and even, yes a bit of
math metal, but that’s just because they can really play. There
isn’t much of that here.
The way
“Bluest Sky” opens the record is a statement; that riff and that
steady steamrolling drum beat could have fit well in The
Jester’s Race. The guitars are crunchy as the thickest
peanut butter, and soon after, notes roll out like there’s
quirkiness brewing here. Still. Goes Cube remains as metal as
you can.
The vocals
go clean on “Grinding the Knife Blade’, a change that will have
the fools deserting and shouting everything from ‘emo sucks’
to ‘gimme my money back’, and ‘hipster metal can suck
my ass’, but just listen to the tune. Let the riff consume
you. “Restore” has an alt-rock past, clean structures that
remind me of some and then some. Once again, when the tune goes
heavy, the crunch is impressive, a perfect tone.
On some
numbers there is clear sunny influence of the same pop-isms that
have informed the music of Torche. In fact, the crunchy tuning
is downright stolen, but fuck, with songs as good as these ones,
who cares?
On “Saab
Sonnet” the guitar rings high, like a happy go lucky post punk
band, Goes Cube balance heavy power with the same doubts. Plenty
of screams establish a middle ground between the normal man
approach and the growl of the start, but the album remains
relentless. The songs flow, compact, heavy, infectious, groovy,
segue into more heavy, infectious, groove-laden rock metal. No
doubt about it, a fucking homerun from The End and Goes Cube.
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