Strange Craft, by Rubber Oh

Strange Craft

by Rubber Oh

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zombiejoe Excellent music for a feverish hallucinogenic adventure! Favorite track: Nothing.

Darknight Oh yeah I really like this album Strange Craft, Rubber Oh really surprised me cos these tunes are so infectious with there psychedelic pop rock. Very cool album indeed, defo going to be on heavy listening rotation. Favorite track: Nothing.

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1.	Humans 04:59	buy track
2.	Dust 03:21	buy track
3.	Children Of Alchemy 03:24	buy track
4.	Little Demon 03:45	buy track
5.	Colour Orbit 02:40	buy track
6.	Hyperdrive Fantasy 03:18	buy track
7.	Arcade 03:30	buy track
8.	To Be The Mariner 03:46	buy track
9.	Nothing 04:11	buy track
10.	You'll Feel Better In The Morning 04:28	buy track

about

Inspiration can strike anyone at any time, and more often than not from somewhat peculiar quarters. Rarely more so than when Sam Grant - thus far best known as guitarist and producer of Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - finally set about work on a solo project that had been pursuing him for some years. “It’s easier to describe it materialistically than by any other way.” he reasons “I want people to imagine that feeling of rubber - its physical memory, the unnatural vibe of it. It’s so tactile but alien, but also difficult not to know. It’s an odd analogy, but that’s what this music is for me.”

A specific gravity is one more property that rubber has going for it, and that much is certainly true of Rubber Oh’s debut album ‘Strange Craft’, the result of his elasticated fixation, and his debut album of deliriously tuneful sci-fi tinged psych-pop. Mapping out a retro-futuristic trajectory that stretches from the wide-eyed travails of the late-’60s through to the hard-edged mind expansions of the 21st century, this collection of warped interstellar voyages is intent on taking the scenic route across the cosmic continuum.

The project took shape initially in snatched hours around Grant’s regular job as studio engineer at Newcastle’s Blank Studios. Not content with completely revamping this facility over the pandemic period, Rubber Oh initially took shape as a means for pure indulgence on the part of its creator, in which he could set about scratching every itch that he’d been forced to discard when working for others.

Paradoxically, certain rules of thumb were utilised, with each track constructed - some might argue in counter-intuitive approach to the riff-driven world of his main band - across a subterranean low-end bedrock of two bass guitarists, a complete absence of cymbal wash, and only single notes allowed on guitar. While he performed the majority of the music, help from friends and acquaintances was enlisted, such as Pigs’ Chris Morley on drums as well as Matt Baty [Pigs x7] and Beth Jeans Houghton [Du Blonde] counting amongst the backing vocalists, all amidst a wash of celestial ambience and curlicues of analogue synth.

The result is a unique soundworld in which an emphasis on beguiling melody marries a kaleidoscopic grandeur. Widescreen gems like the radiant Children Of Alchemy, the hard-edged and paranoid brain-melter Little Demon, and the unshakeable earworm Hyperdrive Fantasy are all vibrant colour and celestial energy, setting their psychic stall out somewhere between the incandescent headspace of a ‘70s sci-fi TV show and the red-light-fever of the overheated ampstacks Grant has been historically more familiar with.

Ultimately, for Grant as well as everyone else, Rubber Oh amounts to one strange trip - “Many of the lyrics are about alchemy, journeying and vessels, as interchangeable metaphors for knowledge and wisdom” he says. “I wanted to mesh the land and sea, the cosmos and the psyche across the tracks as one single plane” Mission accomplished, in short. This Strange Craft is fuelled up and ready to accept all comers on a ride into extensions through dimensions.

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