Authentic Indie Pop-rock.  
In this age of homogenized music-product, pushed on us by the pimps of major labels and their radio station partners in crime, its nice to know that, Rubbernekkers latest release is the non-pasteurized milk of Indie Rock.  Singer/Songwriter Mark Harrington has made the difficult "second album" release of  Rubbernekkers a true delight of the aural senses.  The first track "Guilty", a song that uses harmonic dissonance so effectively, will transport us to a "not so safe place" in your past that we would all like to forget.    "Haunting" with its arpeggio laced synth tracks sit so well with Harrington's haunting  vocals.  "Moon landing" delights with an instrumental that sounds relevant and etherial all at once. 
Other notables include: 
"Some Good Times" - A Peter Murphy-esque vocal with a bit of percussive Indian flair.
"Another New Low " - Melancholy guitar works - frightening walls of electric guitar  ushered by acoustic niceties. 
"Muted Cries" - Vocal armies analogous to David Bowie Scarry Monsters days.
What I enjoyed the most out of this release,  is that the album sounds "new".  It reminds me of the first time I listened to a Beck album.  That feeling of discovering something you did not know about or hear before.  Thanks Rubberbekkerz!
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