Over the last decade, Austrian
trio Mother’s Cake have carved out a
reputation as psychedelic dream-masters, tripping well past the likes of Tame Impala and Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats to curate their own special tie-dye utopia.
In the past it’s all been a bit much for me, but on album 4 they’ve gone less
experimental psyche, more eclectic rock. There are way more riffs to be had
this time. Ok, I’m in. While there remain Grateful
Dead touchstones, there are also tracks that sound like the Arctic Monkeys, and others that reach
for full on Rage Against the Machine.
Cyberfunk! manages to stay pretty weird
while both moving their sound forward and grounding it (at least comparatively).
It heads in a host of directions, opening doors variously marked ‘blues’;
‘funk’; ‘garage rock’; and (unexpectedly) ‘hip-hop’ and ‘nu metal’, amongst
others. There’s a lot going on, and it’s all delivered confidently and with a
twinkle in the eye. Easily their best record in my view. Let them eat cake.