Rubik - "Bad Conscience Patrol" release 06.07.2007

Rubik - "Bad Conscience Patrol"
VÖ: 06.07.2007
Label/Vertrieb: Fullsteam Records/Pias/Rough Trade
Presse/Online Promotion

RUBIK
after entering the native album charts on #7 and being on all music magazines' covers in their homeland, it seems that RUBIK is the most popular and wanted finnish band at the moment...

A lot has happened to Finnish indie quartet - now, occasionally, a quintet - RUBIK after playing their first live show in 2003. Combining near-to-hysterical guitar screeching and atmospheric, almost ambient landscapes with twisted pop melodies you could easily see them threading the path of modern proggish indie and not-so-indie rock with the likes of Radiohead, Elbow, Mew and dEUS.

But as seen on their now sold out debut EP "People go Missing" released in the beginning of 2005 via New Music Community, their music really is strong enough to stand on its own too. Coming out as dream-like but with a nightmare twist there's also certain fragility and accidentiality in it that drones and reshapes; breathes and lets you breathe; embraces not suffocates. All this was noted as well by the audience and the cohorts of critics, who were stunned. For many of them (with the "official" finnish rock critic Ilkka Mattila in the front row) the EP was one of the refreshing debut records of the year.

Yet so far, with only one and now out-of-print mini-album in their pocket, RUBIK has mostly startled people at their gigs that are, so to speak, outblowing experiences of manic energy yet wrapped in crawling-under-your-skin-like intimacy. Within a year alone they've already played shows with Mogwai, Carpark North, Disco Ensemble and Autechre, toured Finland with current local indie faves LAPKO, signed to Fullsteam Records and, above all, finished their debut album "BAD CONSCIENCE PATROL",  so far only released in Finland (March 2007 with a.m. chart-entry).

First brilliant live-impressions outside of Finland have already been given at thisyear's Eurosonic (Groningen/The Netherlands), By:Larm (Trondheim/Norway), Canadian Music Week (Toronto/Canada) and SXSW (Austin/USA). Now the band is about to hit Los Angeles to perform at MUSEXPO before demonstrating their excellent live-performance at THE GREAT ESCAPE Festival in the UK and Europa Vox Festival in France.