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So we went to SXSW with Hud Mo in March 2010 and the best band we saw by about 700 miles was Cubic. This is not to mention the fact that their singles Fuck Work, Black And Blue and Josephine didn't rip our collective heads open when we heardem but I mean, come on, this was Tiombe Lockhart's new band. We loved her sci fi tinged, smarter than everyone soul music for years. And Nick Hook is a man of legacy playing in bands for Drop the Lime and EL-P (Def Jux). It never occurred to us we would become friends with these guys, hang out, smoke a joint or eat steaks with these guys!? So when we got back to Scotland and Nick hollar'd about the prospect of working together we were very honoured to sign these guys for an amazing LP featuring Bilal, Drop The Lime and Dam Funk.

Seriously, this band will fuckin destroy your club, your concert hall, your living room. It's acid inflected pop music that hints towards a tradition of great new york loft parties and the vacious structure of punk bands like ESG and Liquid Liquid. But you know, Cubic's music is more than that. It's not trying to be anything else than Nick Hook, Tiombe Lockhart & Daud Sturdivant going in as hard as they can. I mean, what shall we call it? We have to call it something - that's the way of music journalism. Let's go for ethnic disco.

The debut LP from Cubic Zirconia is called Follow Your Heart, scheduled for release on LuckyMe on January 11th.