"I'll... I'll teach them to play the harmonica!" pleads trumpet player and vocalist Einar Orn at the beginning of the first track, `Traitor'. Barely audible, said harmonica starts to play, and at this point you instinctively reach to turn up the volume - but then the drums start, and the insanity begins. The music is on the edge by itself, but with lead vocalist Björk Gudmundsdottir trading frenzied lines with Orn, the result is something that's completely and utterly over the edge. Every song is filled with a frenetic energy, and Björk's voice is so unpredictable that in some tracks she will quite literally be whispering in one moment and screaming the next. Einar Orn, meanwhile, alternates between a simple lunatic to something akin to a raging werewolf on some tracks. It really is amazing - and this was the Cubes' debut album! Need a charge? Forget that fork in the toaster - go pick up Life's Too Good.
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