Review of Enough Album by Kubicheck!

Kubichek!
Not – Enough – Night.
Album Review

Kubicheck! Enough Album

If you haven’t already, tune your ears to these four young lads from the North East. The best way to describe these guys ironically is a cross between Maximo Park and The Futureheads. Yes that’s it the North East connection, but it’s so true, honestly!

Not – Enough – Night is the debut album to come from Kubichek!. For the Kubichek! faithful it’s been along time coming, but now it’s here with a couple of their classics mixed with some bang up to date new tracks. Nightjoy is a true masterpiece, it has such an amazing tempo & a chorus that will have you screaming to it at the top of your voice, so be warned don’t listen to it on your I-pod on the bus, you will look an idiot. The lyrics mixed with streaming guitar riffs “Not enough Nightjoy it’s not easy” and not forgetting Chris banging away on the drums, it’s a slice of pure energy right up until the end…. and breath. There are two points where you get the opportunity to “have a rest” so to speak and Hope Is Impossible is one of those. Just sit back get a bottle of beer and chill out. There is a feel of anger in the way that they play their instruments, which shines through with Hometown Strategies, but the difference is, Kubichek! channel this in a positive way.

It’s no surprise that these guys were influenced by the Verve, especially when you listen to Star As We Mean To. It seems like the band have put their hands in the pit of Ashcroft and McCabe’s souls and picked this straight out, without a doubt a doubt this is not typical Kubichek! but it is mind blowing. The band pick your jaw straight back up in the shape of the final track Just Shut It Down. Menacing guitar riffs and Alan McDonald with his faultless vocal performance with a tint of the accent coming through. Oh and is Mr McGreevy didn’t break any of his drumsticks during this, then they must be made of steal.

If you can pick four or five singles off an album then you know that it is more likely going to be a good un. The thing is with this album every song could be a single in it’s own right and it’s most certainly not an albums where every song sounds the same, which just adds to it’s merit.

4.5/5

Mark Moore


Official Site - http://www.kubichek.co.uk

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