Description
The Mabuses – The Mabuses – Cassette
Shimmy Disc Records
The Mabuses is a band which formed in London in 1991 and released two albums to considerable critical acclaim. Led by the enigmatic Kim Fahy, the Mabuses offer music which mixes pop sensibilities with more esoteric concerns such as film and literature. The name “Mabuses” is a tribute to the Fritz Lang film trilogy about a master criminal called Dr. Mabuse.
The sheer profusion of influences in their work made The Mabuses impossible to categorize. Lyrically and musically, the result of their output can only be best described as modern psychedelia.
The Mabuses is supremely idealistic pop, cut according to the belief that the form should entice, baffle and ruffle rather than provide a readily assimilable template. Fahy’s rhythmic/melodic charge is rooted in folk-derived Brit-pop, the kind that typified 1967’s psychedelic headcharge, a.k.a Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd and the Soft Machine, with that nursery rhyme loopiness. Whimsy and surrealism simultaneously, all strangeness, quark and charm, where nothing is quite as it seems.
Brand new, never played and still in the factory plastic but small promo hole in case
Track Listing
1. Cubicles
2. In The Long Run
3. Kicking A Pigeon
4. Brightmares
5. Mad Went The Barber
6. Diego No.1
7. Gibbon Walk, The
8. That’s How Men Drop
9. Life In A Lifeboat
10. Novice, The
11. Diego No.2
12. We Rested Our Feet
13. Nightcap
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