Labels: Bullenbush Music
Review by: Captain Fidanza
I watched “Manhunter” last night.
Let’s be clear; when I say I watched “Manhunter” last night, I don’t mean that daft programme on cable called “Mantracker” in which two men wearing cowboy hats have 50% of their speech bleeped out in post-production as they pursue a pretend criminal through the Everglades on horseback “” I mean “Manhunter” the Michael Mann film from 1986.
The film itself is great and so impressive that whatever cinematic dirge the director has put his name to since (Ali, Miami Vice, Public Enemies) none of it is powerful enough to eclipse the majesty of this extraordinarily atmospheric early effort.
Cuboid wouldn’t sound out of place on the “Manhunter” soundtrack.
I haven’t read any reviews of “Cuboid,” but I would be willing to wager large amounts of someone else’s money that the words “joy” and “division” would feature prominently in some of them. However, as everything containing even a rudimentary level of buzzing, being drawled over by a man with a deep voice seems to warrant a mention of that band, I refuse to bolster the malaise. It doesn’t sound anything like Joy Division, they only did two albums, I’ve heard them both and there’s nothing like this on either one. What it does sound like is something that people have spent a long time thinking about, putting together and recording with very little thought of what anyone else might think about it “” and that’s really the only way to do anything.