Pleasure Cube Cube cassette
This is the third release from Minneapolis, MN art-punk trio PLEASURE CUBE, but it’s also maybe viewed as their first release? I’m not entirely sure how to categorize it. There are two previous recordings, which could certainly be viewed as demos as they are a little bit rougher-sounding—Cube has a majority of the same songs from those recordings, but it’s more cohesive and recorded a bit better. However you decide to decipher all of that, PLEASURE CUBE plays some amalgamation of art-punk, post-punk, noise rock, and surely some other subgenres, too. There’s some almost FLIPPER-esque parts which jumped out at me, noticeable both in the plodding, repetitive song parts as well as moments in the vocal delivery. There’s definitely parts of this tape I think are really cool, but the length of the individual songs (as well as the overall length of the cassette) feels a bit overwhelming to me.