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"The new songs [on "Change"] are, as has become customary with Cubeta, all excellent, a quartet of heartfelt vignettes of rootsy, Springsteenesque Americana. These tracks are about the moments of light and darkness that enter everyday lives, about how people struggle with their own natures and how those struggles transform them." – Jason Warburg, The Daily Vault 12/07

"This Brooklyn singer/songwriter, packs soul, punch and feeling mixed with chords so catchy and words so true that you can't help but fall under his power." – Dan Berkman, The Deli Magazine 12/07

Chris Cubeta & The Liars Club - Faithful
(smother.net review)
smother.net
by J-Sin

Singer/songwriter pop-rock is the genre here. Chris's vocals are rich and deeply entrenched in glorious harmonies. Sure there are about a gazillion likeminded singer/songwriters out in the industry struggling to get noticed, but the reason that you should pay attention to this guy and his outfit is because they pay attention. To every nitpicking detail. Whether it's the rootsy approach to guitar tone, with twanging notes that sound purely from the Delta blues school of sound or the incredibly lavish production that sounds big budget but was probably accomplished with more elbow grease than million dollar studio time. It doesn't hurt that his lyrics show his character and give an insider look to his thought process. Tender music this strong is a rare gem, so be sure to polish this rhinestone up nice and shiny.

In 2007, Cubeta and the band released the Change EP, a stripped-down, 7-song EP highlighted by the reflective title track that ponders the inertia of quiet lives and the struggle to evolve as human beings. The EP came on the heels of 2006’s Faithful, the band’s first New York City-based record. All of Cubeta’s albums - including his inaugural effort Sugar Sky (2003) - are artistic declarations, full of offbeat characters, ecstatic revelations and unfiltered emotion. In Cubeta’s universe, the heroes are the heartbroken vagabonds, the wistful winos and all the other overlooked beauty-seekers of his “crooked candy world.” Both Change and Faithful are the kind of records that unabashedly announce the arrival of a new and necessary young artist whose urgent and desperate approach to songwriting is all too rare in contemporary music. Says Jason Warburg of The Daily Vault, “(Faithful) is literate roots-rock of the first order, full of sharply-drawn characters, powerful arrangements and raw revelations, sung in a voice passionate enough to dare any cynic to believe.” Time Out New York calls The Liars Club “ a sturdy, passionate, local roots-rock quartet.”

The Liars Club’s live show is bolstered by a high-octane band – Jeff Berner on guitars, Marc Capaldo on drums and John Passineau on bass. Each brings his own flair to a show that is a dynamic blend of passionate, guitar-infused energy and down-home, rootsy melancholy. Cubeta presides over every gig with the subtle and sure hand of a seasoned performer, deftly alternating between wowing the crowd with his guitar and telling the silhouetted stories of the unsung.

In addition to being an accomplished and versatile musician, Cubeta is also a skilled solo performer who has opened several times for Chris Trapper (formerly of The Pushstars). A longtime resident of upstate New York, Chris moved to Brooklyn in 2005 and the band has since played prime slots at some of the city's most prestigious rooms – Pianos, The Bitter End, Trash, The Delancey, Crash Mansion and Rockwood Music Hall to name a few. The Liars Club has opened for singer-songwriter Gary Jules (“Mad World,” Donnie Darko soundtrack) as well as platinum-selling artist The Wallflowers. In late 2007, the band embarked on its first-ever East Coast tour, with stops in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, Raleigh, Nashville and others. They continue to play some of the best music rooms on the east coast including Tin Angel, Milkboy Coffee, 8x10, T.T. The Bear’s and Northstar Music Café.

Go to www.chriscubeta.com for more information.

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