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Box of Hair

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I heard that Cub broke up. If it's true it's truly tragic. Cub are a female trio from the Great White North who specialize in sugary-sweet pop gems with a very little bit of a country feel. Sometimes they remind me of The Fastbacks. They play clean with little or no distortion & make good use of light-hearted humor. The Last 2 tracks "Riverside" & "Not What You Think (Live)" show that they can do much more than the seemingly empty cutsie pop songs. Their pop songs, however, are not as vacuous as they may appear to be on the surface. They are smart, creative & heart warming. I don't know if this is Cub's best album, because they are all so good, but I do know that if bands like Heavenly, Go Sailor & Butterglory make you happy, then so will Cub.

If you like or want to get a taste of fun light Vancouver based 'cuddle core' style music, this is a great CD. Magic 8-Ball is their hit single,... or at least the best song from an obscure but good band that never broke out of the 1990s college radio circuit.

This album, like "Come Out, Come Out" has some great songs, plus it has much better production than their earlier albums, which sound muffled. This album is probably the most stylistically varied, with songs like "Magic 8 Ball" being cutesy pop while songs like "One Last Kiss" being more punk. I would compare Cub with Tiger Trap and Sleater-Kinney.

This album as about as good as their previous one "Come Out Come Out," with this album being better produced, yet having fewer great songs.