Byron Coley reviews our Lockdown album "Return To Reason" in his Size matters column in the December 2021 issue of The Wire magazine - page 65.
"...This cassette displays an interesting handle on live electronics with a definite psychedelic edge. It comes across as a mix of early 60s electronic music, post-form stonerism and a smidgen of Gong."
A few copies of the cassette left, or download, from here:
Release date: 10th August 2021
Fresh from their first live performance since the
beginning of the pandemic at KozFest in Devon, UK this summer, RUBBER BUS
announce the release of Noh Yogah, their first full length album since a
recent run of EPs, a lathe cut 7” and their vintage “lost” album Take It
Easy.
A mix of dub, space rock and ambient, the reformed RUBBER BUS present brand new material seasoned with a dash of unreleased archive material from the original 1990s line-up.
Recent material has been playlisted by Steve Barker’s On The Wire show on BBC Radio Lancashire, The Wirebender on Berlin’s Radio On, Michael Hodges’ Temple Of Shadows and The Kev Ellis Show. RUBBER BUS have remixed material by MOTA and Kaleidophon, and curate the Dulcet Business News compilations on The Slightly Off Kilter Label.
“…a punky-reggae
episode of strident chaos…”
– Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector
“The band create a mellow, blunted atmosphere well suited
to chillout rooms at 4am…”
– Jon Maple
“You know what they say about the line between madness
and genius, and certain tracks… have a passing acquaintance with genius. They’re not at loggerheads with madness
either, come to think of it…”
– George Berger (author
of Let’s Submerge – Writings From The Punk Rock Underground, The
Story Of CRASS and Dance Before The Storm: Official Story Of The
Levellers)
The Slightly Off Kilter Label re-release "Take It Easy" on cd on 30th July 2021!
Initial copies include a free download code for the super-limited cassette "Return To Reason" from last year, plus some vintage 'Bus ephemera. Available from the RUBBER BUS bandcamp page:
RUBBER BUS on the Daevid Allen Stage at KozFest 2021, viewed remotely here by Temple Of Shadows' DJ Michael Hodges.
22-25 July KOZFEST, Devon, UK
17 - 19 September GLASTONBURY PSYCHFEST, Glastonbury, UK
