Robocobra Quartet
Robocobra Quartet

Robocobra Quartet – Correct

Belfast’s Robocobra Quartet have released a new single & announced a couple of Irish gigs

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Correct is taken from Robocobra Quartet‘s forthcoming LP Music For All Occassions.

Describing their sound as ‘down-tempo jazz-influenced hardcore’, Robocobra Quartet out of Belfast, sound like little else. Combining spoken-word vocals, effects-laden bass, and raw improvisation, Robocobra Quartet’s no holds barred approach has garnered the group a reputation as a must-see live act.

Centred on a howling drummer-vocalist and offset by menacing saxophones, the oblique song structures, angular rhythms and direct lyrics built around snippets of quotes and would-be adages allow for only absurd comparisons to reveal anything about their style. You’d be forgiven, for instance, for thinking that they sound like Richard Dawson playing with Brian McMahan, or Steve Reich composing music for Fugazi. Tracks such as ‘Find X’ and the tongue-in-cheek ‘Our Very Own Version Of November Rain’ drive home a bass driven Dischord-era post-hardcore sound laced with avant-garde, jazz-infused woodwind and rhythm sections standing sentinel to drive the music into more experimental territory, as the instrumentation coalesces around drummer-vocalist Chris Ryan’s brooding, meditative lyrics.

Robocobra Quartet play The Bello Bar in Dublin on October 14th and Macmanus in Dundalk on October 29th, before heading off on a UK tour in November.

Robocobra Quartet
Robocobra Quartet

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