It's a frivolous and unstable music scene we inhabit. One minute people are appreciating the lovable audacity and geezer swagger of bands like Kasabian and The Enemy and the next it's shunned as a landscape of lads brandishing a can of larger with negative intentions. What was once a sing a-long anthem is now a tarnished symbol of antagonistic aggression - and the reason? it's probably as simple as popularity.
People become weary of a bands popularity, sometimes it ruins it for them, but those people are just pretentious scene-hungry cunts with minimal morals and a high sense of self-appreciation, so not worry about it too much. The Rubicon are in dangerous territory i would guess, primarily because they're sitting on one hell of a top-notch stack of distinctly British indie-pop gems. In particular, the song up for download today - 'On The Left Side'. It's smithsy jangle of swooning harmonic backing vocals infused with a finger-clicking brit-pop sway makes for very warm listening at this time of year.
It's either going to be the mellow Libs-like woo's that solidify the potential of this sweet song or the gaggle of wholesome, romanticised indie-disco lyrics that jive their way right into your head - This Feeling and their Weller-barnet cohorts and going to go mad for it. I already have.
Even better, we've only bloody booked them!
13th December @ Hamptons, Free Show!
4th February w/ Iron Door Club and The Radics @ Hamptons
Download The Rubicon - On The Left Side
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