Tag: Rubanq releases Worldwide Dead

Satellite Train’s “Paralyzed”: Where Vulnerability Meets Sonic Innovation

The first notes of "Paralysed" sound like they came from another world. The Melbourne-based indie rock group Satellite Train has always been at the centre of raw feeling and sound discovery. With their newest song, they have found a frequency that speaks to something very human: the feeling of being mentally stuck while the world spins out of control. This isn't just another rock ballad. The...

“Unforgiven”: Sophia Mengrosso’s Operatic War Cry.

Sophia Mengrosso’s new album, “Unforgiven”, doesn’t so much start as it does detonate, a thirteen-song treatise on survival. Her voice, a thing clearly trained for gilded halls and velvet curtains, instead wails from within a foundry’s clang and fire. The result is a bizarre and beautiful collision, the sonic equivalent of discovering a lost Caravaggio painting lit by a flickering fluorescent tube in a...

Is This Us? Rubanq’s “Worldwide Dead” Forces a Hard Look.

Rubanq’s “Worldwide Dead” slides into your listening not with a bang, but with the gritty inevitability of a slowly tightening knot. Joel Patric, the...