BANDS

Rubik

"it's brilliant, album-of-the-year type material ... to listen to Dada Bandits is to hear as good a summation of modern indie rock as you're likely to hear." (Popmatters, USA)

"ADHD'd Finns explode piano balladry, spacey synths, drum blarts, mariachi brass, and a hypnotic chorus, then let the pieces fall into place" (Spin Magazine, USA)

"Listening to Dada Bandits, it's hard not to feel that Rubik's done more-rather than following international trends, they're showing us all the way forward." (Nylon Magazine, USA)

"It's pure prog for now people... or perhaps No Wave for those with less access to cheap heroin. Freaky." (Filter Magazine, USA)

BIO
Rubik WILL make your skin crawl at somepoint. This happens when you’re forced to peer too far into anything. Vertigo.It’s a curse, the knowing of another’s inner thoughts. Right after making yousquirm, the band will lift you up with a cascade of melody. It’s arollercoaster ride, vacillating between the micro- and macrocosmic.
Rubik’s self-produced second album, Dada Bandits, does a scary littlehigh-wire dance between the intimate and the elephantine, the melodic and thenoisy, the gorgeous and the hideous. They can be as withdrawn and obtuse as theartiest rock band out there and then bust out with a melodic hug potent enoughto enclose the globe. Rubik can go from sounding like a well oiled,world-conquering machine to a broken down, cigarette encrusted bar piano.
The band offers the opportunity for a riotof (subjective) trainspotting, comparable to the most crate-centred DJ Shadowcut out there. The trick is that none of it is obvious at all and if you tellyour friends, they’ll disagree. There are no facts. So if I tell you that to meRubik takes the textures and atmospheres of TV on the Radio and marries them tothe spiritual comfort of a Sufjan Stevens horn section, while spicing things upwith a naïve melodic touch worthy of the Cure and then manages to rock out tothe point of degenerating into noise, you are well within your rights tovehemently disagree. And you’ll be right, too, but so will I. One thing’s forsure, though. Dada Bandits can takemore listens then you realize and continue to provide little revelations eachtime. This band is currently firing on allcylinders.
Since 2005, when the band released itsfirst EP, People Go Missing, andstrode straight out of left field to claim its place the great indie hope for anew millennium, Rubik has revelled in the tension created by throwing itself inmany directions at once. Bad Conscience Patrol, the FullsteamRecords debut, was a popular and critical smash hit in 2007, hitting the heavymetal-armoured Finnish album chart right in the leather-clad gut at number 7.They played a load of gigs in Europe and North America and shared stages withthe likes of Mogwai, Autechre, Apostle of Hustle and Disco Ensemble.
They were never out of place. Not once.
MEMBERS
Artturi Taira - vocals, guitar, keyboards
Sampsa Väätäinen - drums
Jussi Hietala - bass
Samuli Pöyhönen - guitar, keyboards

www.myspace.com/rubikband

Releases

DADA BANDITS (CD)
RUBIK
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BAD CONSCIENCE PATROL (CD)
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CITY & THE STREETS (CDS)
RUBIK
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JESUS VS. PEOPLE. (2*MCD)
RUBIK
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WASTELAND (PROMO CDS)
RUBIK
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NO ESCAPE (PROMO CDS)
RUBIK
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DATA BANDITS EP
RUBIK
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Promotion

Finland
Johannes Kinnunen
tel +358 41 533 6211
johannes(a)fullsteamrecords.com

International
Ville Kilpeläinen
tel +358 44 678 0393
ville(a)fullsteamrecords.com

USA & Canada
Marc Debiak, Paper Tiger AV
marc(a)papertigerllc.com

Booking

Finland
Otso Kähönen, Fullsteam Agency
tel +358 50 538 4178
otso(a)fullsteamagency.com

USA
Justin Bridgewater, The Agency Group
justinbridgewater(a)theagencygroup.com

Canada
Julien Paquin, Paquin Entertainment
julien(a)paquinentertainment.com

Label contact

Fullsteam Records
Työpajankatu 2, bldg 7
00580 Helsinki, Finland
tel +358 (0)9 2905 0805
fax +358 (0)9 2905 0804
info(a)fullsteamrecords.com

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