Robocobra Quartet
Belfast’s Robocobra Quartet share new double single Heaven/Night via Deptford based label First Taste Records. and the announcement of a highly anticipated new album to come later in the year.
Photo Credit: Colin Armstrong
Speaking on the first single Heaven, Ryan from the band comments: “Heaven is about the cult-like mania of capitalism. I grew up listening to Dead Kennedys and always liked how they would write songs from the perspective of a character they didn’t necessarily agree with. There’s something fascinating about the stories that emerge and I wanted to get inside that extremely chaotic and self absorbed headspace. I loved the idea of singing as someone so narcissistic they find their newborn child beautiful just because they look alike.”
Conversely, “Night” is one of the band’s most downtempo tracks yet. Born out of a “jam around a sampled chord from one of our old songs”, the song’s instrumentation is minimal yet affecting, whilst Ryan’s vocals nightwalk through a narrative around the sun setting on youth.
Robocobra Quartet Live
04.03 London The Shacklewell Arms
12.03 Brilliant Corners Festival of Jazz, Belfast, NI
12.06 Maifeld Derby Festival, DE
19-21.08 Green Man Festival, UK
