What was only a suggestive fantasy on his 2005 « Drum Major ! » album has become Rubin Steiner’s (long-awaited) rock album, an echo of his first musical passion, an obvious reminder of the devastating energy he and his Neue Band have shown in the hundreds of concerts they have given over the past three years.
The band (which line-up for the 2008 tour was made up of Sylvestre Perrusson on bass, Stéphane Charasse on drums, Olivier Claveau on guitar, Lionel Laquerière on keyboards and guitar, Rubin Steiner on guitar, vocals and keyboards), after having gigged in every venue and festival in France and in Europe during three years, is currently preparing a new, electric show.
Besides not using any samples in the raw material of this fifth album, Rubin Steiner has also pushed aside the zany découpageThis album is a decisive turning point in his discography, or perhaps Rubin Steiner is simply showing his real face: with deliberate openness, often recorded in a single take, these new songs are true ear-catchers from the first listening, and plunge the listener into the unique world of Rubin, who finally takes the mike to tell his passionate musical stories. The title of the album is evocative and tells no lies. It is indeed a collection of “Weird hits”, bizarre hit singles, some we can already imagine ourselves singing in chorus, fist in the air (Another Record Story of Krautrock (Hope to see you at Total Heaven, 1974, Kiss Richard, For Sloy Rubin Steiner thus turns the page of the electro-jazz-hip-hop he was known for and enables us, in 2008, to listen to what he had been showing us on stage and during his explosive DJ sets over the past five years: true dance-floor punk!
