As well as maintaining the coolest haircut in Scotland's capital city, Paul Haig, former frontman of Postcard label recording artists Josef K, has also kept up a steady stream of studio work over the decades, ranging from soundtracks to imaginary movies to various oblique approaches to contemporary pop-rock.
It's safe to say that he has stayed out in left field and allowed the likes of Franz Ferdinand to colonise the commercial ground in a style he originated.
That's probably unlikely to change with Kube, which has more than a few flashes of pop brilliance but some distinctly experimental sonic excursions as well. That sort of mix is quite customary in hip hop but not really common in the pop/rock mainstream. So a track like diALog, which mixes snatches of sampled speech, none of it sequential, with electronic percussion, immediately follows the catchy "Never do nothing again" chorus of Red Rocks, which has already appeared as a single coupled with opener UW2B (You Want To Be), and is itself followed by one of those "cinematique" instrumentals, Four Dark Traps. The mix is in fact very beguiling, and Kube is as good a place to start as anywhere if you are curious about what the Julian Cope of Scottish pop is up to these days.
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