ALBUM REVIEW: Rubberbear – The Other Side of the Fence

Manchester based Rubberbear have a new record out which compiles the best of their material in a short yet prolific existence.

Featuring Steve Trafford, formerly of The Fall and Tom Chapman of New Order, Rubberbear are easily one of the most interesting bands to emerge from Britain in the last few years for those who remember a time, before Britpop, when all was possible, but creativity was eventually doused by a plethora of middling guitar bands whose only ambition, it seemed, was to regurgitate tired Oasis riffs.

Trafford’s experiences of working with Mark E. Smith and Chapman’s involvement with New Order - the band which almost single handedly re-invented pop music in the ‘80s - mean that this is no such dull affair.