Name: Strange Craft
Brand: Rubber Oh

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LAUNCH251RT

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Colour

Pink

Colour details

Pink and Grey Splatter Vinyl

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Discogs ID

[r23464349]

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-06-03

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

RTUK

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5056321640819

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes / Signed copies: No / pink

CD-LAUNCH-251

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Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format: No

2022-06-10

Redeye

5056321640833

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

LP-LAUNCH-251C

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Yellow

Yellow Vinyl

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2022-07-01

5056321640826

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / yellow

Artist

Rubber Oh

Genre US

New Psyche & Psyche Rock

Label US

Rocket Recordings

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Vinyl variants, bonus material and signed editions exclusively available from Rough Trade.

Inspiration can strike anyone at any time, and more often than not from somewhat peculiar quarters. Rarely more so than when Sam 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 <i>Strange Craft,</i> 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. 

Widescreen 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 <i>Strange Craft</i> is fueled up and ready to accept all comers on a ride into extensions through dimension.

Strange Craft

Music US

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