Cable Boy Drop Debut LP ‘Forever’
Dublin five-piece Cable Boy have released their debut album ‘Forever,’ and it feels like them finally going all in on everything they’ve been messing with up to now.
The band have been tagged with “goth disco,” which sounds neat until you hear how messy they let it get. Forever moves between blown-out guitars and tight, flickering synth lines without settling in one place for too long. Some tracks hit hard and fast, all drum drive and noise, while others drift into something softer, closer to hazy bedroom pop or slow, psych sprawl. It feels like a band figuring out how far they can stretch their sound without snapping it.
Produced by Adam Shanahan, David Tapley, and the band, the album jumps between the rush of tracks like ‘Something In My Head’ and the title track, and the more spaced-out moments like ‘Icarus,’ ‘Let’s Go,’ and ‘Drought,’ where things loosen up.
Frontman Semilore Olusa frames the album as a snapshot.
“The intention behind calling the album ‘Forever’ was to create something from the soul that feels like it’ll stand the test of time. We wanted to make something that sounded like a Time Capsule filled with all inspiration, like events and feelings we experienced so far in our time as a band. I think we succeeded in making something for ourselves as well as other people in our community’”
Cable Boy started out as a smaller, more straightforward project, but the lineup shift after their 2019 EP ‘WHOLE’ pushed them somewhere heavier and less predictable. Since then, they’ve built a reputation on the back of their live shows, where the contrast in their sound lands harder, louder, and a bit less controlled. ‘Forever’ feels like an extension of that.
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