Tobel Lopes: ‘Cabresto’ [Review]
We all know the feelings unique to Monday mornings. The bleary-eyed knackeredness, the aching muscles, the brain filled with thoughts and memories of the weekend that, perhaps, make us wish we hadn’t been born with neurons. What you need is to wake up – to be unceremoniously jolted out of your inertia-filled state of conscious unconsciousness. We all have our own rituals with which to achieve this: a morning workout, jog, cigarette, coffee, espresso, Red Bull, perhaps all of the above. But these options require actual physical effort. At the very least, you need to get out of bed. Hassle.
Fortunately for us, Tobel Lopes has the answer. All you need is a music-playing device, some headphones, and a copy of his new EP, Cabresto. Three tracks of glorious Mars Volta / Faith No More / Dillinger Escape Plan / Head Automatica-esque mindfuckery, a densely compressed mass of polyrhythmic hypercomplexity that is all you need to jump-start you out of bed and ploughing through your morning routine like a taurine-fuelled maniac.
And if your energy starts to flag, just stick Cabresto back in your ears. Assuming, that is, that you took it out in the first place. But when it’s this immense, why would you?
Check Cabresto out on Bandcamp here: http://tobellopes.bandcamp.com/album/cabresto
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