Cubeta, Chris
Apoe
You can hear on APOE, the new album by New York songwriter, session musician and studio owner Chris Cubeta, that he understands his craft excellently on every level. The songs, which are composed of a wide spectrum of indie, folk, rock and also pop elements, always get to the point, while at the same time one cannot deny them a certain joy of experimentation. As a session musician and, more importantly, as a long-time studio owner, he naturally knows about the effect of sound and tone, and so the songs revel in broad, warm sounds. With its multi-layered instrumentation and lyrics that veer between ambient and unsettling, APOE is not easily categorised. At its core, however, it is both a homage and a eulogy, Cubeta's melancholic hymn to the things we lose that never come back...