Rubber Cage

by The Work

Rubber Cage cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: December 1989
  • Label: Megaphone
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 37:05
  • Community rating: 3.91/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: Mick Hobbs, Bill Gilonis, Rick Wilson

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Reuniting the core lineup founded by Henry Cow's Tim Hodgkinson, 'Rubber Cage' is an exceptionally complex, jittery masterpiece of British avant-rock. The album completely deconstructs post-punk aesthetics, relying on jarring time signature shifts, scraping dissonant guitars, and heavily mechanical industrial rhythms. It is a highly challenging, intellectually demanding record that anticipates the most angular extremes of 1990s math rock.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, uncommon-time-signatures, rhythmic, complex, dissonant, avant-garde, unconventional, minimal, experimental, noisy

Tracklist

  1. Poise (0:57)
  2. Abdomen (2:26)
  3. Felt (1:20)
  4. Commerce And Despair (2:46)
  5. Dangerfish (4:33)
  6. 1992 (5:58)
  7. Coloured Water (3:10)
  8. Stone (4:19)
  9. Trauma (3:44)
  10. Knee (1:52)
  11. Jay (2:20)
  12. Quack (3:40)

Credits

  • Mick Hobbs - bass, horn [midi-horn], guitar
  • Rick Wilson - drums, percussion, vocals, cello
  • Tim Hodgkinson - guitar [flat], keyboards, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, vocals
  • Bill Gilonis - guitar, sampler, vocals

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