New Single: Worldcub - Back To The Beginning
Beginning their musical journey under the name CaStLeS before changing their name, North Walian's Worldcub are back with a brand new album in May. The lead single from the album is the mesmerising title track 'Back To The Beginning'. We took a listen to this enticing new single in advance of it's release on March 15th.
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There's no doubt about it in my mind, North Wales is a magical place. It's history is sometimes so overwhelming that it overshadows any possible semblance of thinking about the future. That's not a insult or criticism of the place, in fact it's far away from such a pointless and reductive angle. I grew up in what I would call 'Anglicised' North Wales; an area near the border that lost much of it's identity from English migration. Let's not get into holiday home culture shall we?
My home town of Buckley is a historic brick-making town, that was overwhelmed by clay pits for mining and as a result, was overwhelmed with people looking for work from Ireland, Merseyside, The Potteries and beyond and the turn of the 20th Century. If you've ever heard the bizarre turns of phrase that came from the mouths of locals after that melding of culture occured, you'd be surprised you were in Wales at all Duckie. Of course, the further west you venture, the more likely you are to find Welsh culture, language and art thriving.
Worldcub embody much of what brings this melting pot of ideas together, whilst still managing to ensure you're aware they could come from nowhere else on Earth. Forging together elements of surf, krautrock and psychedelia, new single 'Back to the Beginning' finds them in great form. The band have a knack of making these very familiar sounds and techniques blend together effortlessly much in the same way as one of the best bands to come out of North Wales - or to me, anywhere - Super Furry Animals did.
The track extends an invitation to a jaunt through confused memories and past lives on 'Back To The Beginning'. It positively crackles with electric anticipation from the off, based around an infectious, looping groove that you'll struggle to get out of your head. The guitar licks are spacey and trippy, that will take you to another realm enitirely if you follow them down the rabbit hole. Harmonies that sound like they're floating past in the breeze of an early spring afternoon and vocal interplays that are similtaneously wistful for the past and contemplative of the unknown.
Find out more about the band at worldcubworld.com
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