MP3: Rubik - Radiants
Much respect to Fullsteam Records for cherry-picking most of Finland's most commercially viable indie acts, but bands like Rubik are a perfect example of why I don't consider myself a fan of what's generally acknowledged these days as "indierock". I guess I'm not surprised that an album titled "Dada bandits" is all artifice/no substance since I have such low expectations anyway, but I would've figured they'd try to write some dynamic songs instead of stringing incoherent parts together. At least with some of other current big-name indie I can understand its appeal as non-offensive background/TV commercial music (indie is the new MOR after all), but the impulse to make or listen to music like this totally baffles me. It's total blandness actually enrages me more because I simply cannot imagine anyone hearing this and getting stoked. You want Dada/Surrealist inspired music, listen to Wire. Heck, just listen to Radiohead if that's as much digging you're willing to do. Just don't listen to this.
Rubik - Radiants