genCAB ‘Let It Rip’ – new EP by eclectic US industrial-electro act precedes new album out in September on Metropolis Records
LET IT RIP
new EP
out 23.08.24
(Metropolis Records)
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III I II (THIRD EYE GEMINI)
new album
out 20.09.24
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genCAB | 2024 photo
Having founded the industrial-electro act genCAB in 2006, David Dutton put the group on hold following the release of their debut album ‘II transMuter’ two years later. A forward thinking record in the genre, it had blended elements of EBM and synth-pop into song arrangements perfectly suited for aggressive rock.
genCAB eventually returned in 2022 with a long-awaited follow-up entitled ‘Thoughts Beyond Words’, as well as the genre-bending ‘Everything You See Is Mine’ EP. These were promoted on a US tour with Aesthetic Perfection, for whom both Dutton and genCAB drummer Tim Van Horn had spent the intervening years playing live.
2023 saw genCAB sign to Metropolis Records, with the album ‘Signature Flaws’ appearing in the autumn. A meditation on one’s own demise, it introduced elements of shoegaze and post-hardcore to an already dense melting pot of disparate sounds.
‘Let It Rip’ is a new EP that precedes the cryptically entitled album ‘III I II (THIRD EYE GEMINI)’, due out in late September 2024. Half of the full-length record is a modern day update of the best material contained on their 2008 debut, with the remainder consisting of brand new songs inspired by the re-recordings.
An improvement in the genCAB sound was already apparent via a recent rework of the 2008 track ‘Perish The Thought’ released as a single in 2023, but everything else is also now amped up to 11. Although retaining a raw and fresh feel that is faithful to the original renditions, the songs have been completely restructured and are sung with more confidence and conviction than ever by Dutton.
LET IT RIP EP
TRACKLISTING
1 Six Hits
2 Down Where We Belong
3 Cancer Causes Life (Recycled)
genCAB | David Dutton 2024 photo
