The Mabuses - Mabused!
Reviewed by david
The Kim Fahy-led coterie of international pop wizards, The Mabuses have returned after an absence of more than a dozen years, having been thrust into '90s cult obscurity a long, long time ago. Mabused is pop in the vein of '60s and '70s weirdness—it's not cut from the same cake as the bands under the Elephant 6 umbrella—that is to say, it's not all sunshine and bubbly-goodness. Surreal imagery, capricious styles of songcraft, melodies and vocal lines that evaporate into nothingness mid-verse, an antipathy towards convention; these are the foundations of Mabused and rarely are such traits expressed so vividly and ornately in modern music. [www.themabuses.com]