Rumour Cubes To Headline October Tipping Point Night
14th October 2014
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*The Tipping Point Bringing The Best Tipped Bands To London's Sebright Arms*
**Rumour Cubes + Wide Skies Set For 22nd Oct Show**
Full Details Over at The Tipping Point: The Tipping Point Showcase No.2
Generator / Disorder & Club Fandango team up again to bring you The Tipping Point which features the finest new bands from around the UK from the highly influential and very cool Tipping Point Website: www.tipping-point.co.uk
This month we have:
RUMOUR CUBES
‘Seven Year Glitch’ is a Rumour Cubes song, and that means cinematic, string-led post-rock. If post-rock’s mandate is to re-contexualise the instruments responsible for 60 years of rock ‘n’ roll, and use them to make a new sort of music, Rumour Cubes are in line with that doctrine. ‘Seven Year Glitch’ is a delicate, arcing song which, though full of ambient beauty, also benefits from an astute listener.
Presumably areference to the infamous ‘seven year itch’ faced by married couples, the title of the song frames the emotional arc of the soundscape. Reading into this brings out interpretative possibilities; is the song lamenting infidelity and disaster? Is it written from experience? Perhaps the duet viola/violin parts, that interact so tragically, represent a couple at a glitch in their relationship, and the listener is peering through the fourth wall at their pained conversation.
- The Tipping Point
"They make music to make and break hearts, full of cinematic sentiment that gets stuck in your soul. Think of them as the soundtrack to your daydreams." - THE 405
www.facebook.com/rumourcubes
www.soundcloud.com/rumourcubes
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WIDE SKIES
Our tip today opens with glittery guitars, bearing down on a melancholic but warm tale of a relationship in repair. It’s a lovely notion of a couple coming together on a promise to strengthen their bond, by making a vow to take care of their love.
London’s Wide Skies first met in 2012 and have been working hard in Brick Lane Studios finding their sound. We have their first creation for you today, called ‘Take Care of Love’.
The production is easy on the ears, and builds subtly. The percussion helps the build and an acoustic guitar really brings the story to life. It almost feels like a film, with the relationship’s problems exposed quickly, with ups and downs in emotion, before grand strings and big energy beams through in the music towards the end.
Vocalist Hannah Caughlin has the endearing softness of Natasha Khan but together with her bandmate Jamie McDonald they achieve a merge not unlike Nico and Lou Reed. They have experience under their belt, Hannah having worked with Roots Manuva in the past and Jamie having toured with The Strokes in his past band South.
The band promise more songs and their first live dates soon, so if you are in and about London and would like a reassuring hug in audio then keep on the lookout for Wide Skies.
- THE TIPPING POINT
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www.soundcloud.com/wide-skies
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