{"title":"Rubber Oh","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"soil-2","title":"Soil","description":"\u003cp\u003eRubber Oh (Sam Grant) has returned with weirded-out psych project Rubber Oh and the bold new album \u003ci\u003eSoil\u003c\/i\u003e released on the Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs,  collective imprint, Mr Medicine Records.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluding collaborations from Bristol’s Rozi Plain, London based Voka Gentle, and Newcastle artists Me Lost Me and Ceitidh Mac, the sophomore record offers a vivid journey through Grant’s otherworldly machinations.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSoil\u003c\/i\u003e picks up where 2021’s debut \u003ci\u003eStrange Craft\u003c\/i\u003e left off, presenting kaleidoscopic melodies floating above dense rhythms. It skirts a line between dark heavy riff and floating harmony. However, where the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eStrange Craft\u003c\/i\u003e was a focussed, at times minimal affair, \u003ci\u003eSoil\u003c\/i\u003e looks to break out into a vast filmic landscape. It is a record with a new found confidence in what Rubber Oh is, both thematically and sonically. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA major feature of this record is the arrangements Grant composed throughout for both choir and strings. There is imposed friction; the push and pull between the levity and delicacy of these voices and strings, rubbing up against the grit and distortion of the driving rhythm section - the music is once again built around Grant’s fuzzed-out, hard-panned basses. The unusual marriage of instrumentation here though creates an intriguing sonic space that feels both familiar and new at the same time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mr Medicine Records","offers":[{"title":"Red LP","offer_id":50427055735115,"sku":"2206122","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/RUBBER_OH_-_SOIL_-_PACKSHOT_62dabc3e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726820992"},{"product_id":"strange-craft","title":"Strange Craft","description":"\u003cp\u003eInspiration can strike anyone at any time, and more often than not from somewhat peculiar quarters. Rarely more so than when\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSam Grant - thus far best known as guitarist and producer of Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - finally set about work on a solo project that had been pursuing him for some years. “I want people to imagine that feeling of rubber - its physical memory, the unnatural vibe of it. It’s so tactile but alien. It’s an odd analogy, but that’s what this music is for me.”A specific gravity is one more property that rubber has going for it, and that much is certainly true of Rubber Oh’s debut album \u003ci\u003eStrange Craft,\u003c\/i\u003e the result of his elasticated fixation, and his debut album of deliriously tuneful sci-fi tinged psychpop. It’s a unique soundworld in which an emphasis on beguiling melody marries a kaleidoscopic grandeur. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidescreen gems like the warped interstellar voyage that is Children Of Alchemy and the unshakeable earworm Hyperdrive Fantasyare all vibrant colour and celestial energy, setting their psychic stall out somewhere between the incandescent headspace of a ‘70s sci-fi TV show and the red-light-fever of the overheated ampstacks Grant has been historically more familiar with.Ultimately, for Grant as well as everyone else, Rubber Oh amounts to one strange trip - “Many of the lyrics are about alchemy, journeying and vessels, as interchangeable metaphors for knowledge and wisdom” he says. “I wanted to mesh the land and sea, the cosmos and the psyche across the tracks as one single plane” Mission accomplished, in short. This \u003ci\u003eStrange Craft\u003c\/i\u003e is fuelled up and ready to accept all comers on a ride into extensions through dimension.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Yellow | LP","offer_id":50427903934795,"sku":"1142217","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Pink | LP","offer_id":50427902394699,"sku":"1142218","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50427905278283,"sku":"1142216","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a7454180-e6e7-44f3-81c3-b85bd8143e3e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726828400"},{"product_id":"little-demon","title":"Little Demon","description":"\u003cp\u003eStraight from the fertile imagination of Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs guitarist Sam Grant comes Rubber Oh - a place where an irreverent magpie spirit has its way with the eternal psych-pop continuum. ‘Little Demon’ is the first sample of this fresh foray - a bass-driven, blissed out mantra that sets out its stall where the travails of the everyday fade into the transcendental realm of the astral plane. A whole new box of sonic delights from a curious and artful talent, this track maps out a refreshing new landscape on which shameless melodic suss and wayward aural eccentricity lock horns. Some may be reminded of the likes of Air’s ‘10000Hz Legend’ and Super Furry Animals ‘Radiator’ by the montage of 60s-tinged mind-melt and sleek futurism here, but the truth is that Rubber Oh is a manifestation of a very personal vision. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlchemically assembled in his own Blank studios in Newcastle, ‘Little Demon’ - in all its thundering, earcandy glory, and accompanied by a Faustian, abstraction-embracing remix by friends and cohorts Richard Dawson and Circle’s Jussi Lehtisalo - is merely a first step into the unknown. “It’s a reference to when you’re lying in bed and your thoughts sabotage you” reasons Grant of ‘Little Demon’ - “It’s all meant to be this fixed loop - the lyrics, the riff, the drums - a constant repetition that keeps going round, maybe like a fever dream. The little demons that when you’re in bed suddenly start in your psyche, opening a door that just leads to another door” Wherever this door leads, ‘Little Demon’ is a psychic journey to be returned to on repeat.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Yellow | 7\"","offer_id":50466274836811,"sku":"1142421","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/1f386b82-c114-41e1-843d-8ec8d5de1c16_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727309705"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_ce55882d_thumbnail_4096_8768036a-3e98-41e1-aca7-532884de80bc.jpg?v=1726820973","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/rubber-oh.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}