It’s been a while since I’ve posted a Cabs track. This is the opener from the last album, ‘Shadow Of Fear’ which came out own 2020 just under a year before its composer, Richard H. Kirk died. So it followed ‘The Conversation’ which had come out in 1993 as the two albums under his sole stewardship up to that time. And even though it was just him, it certainly doesn’t lose anything that make it unmistakably of its type. Many would say that its more genuine because of this. I’m a fan of the combo approach though and while I think RHK rarely put a foot wrong, a lot of my favourite Cabs offerings come from the Mallinder era. I don’t think anything they ever put out betters ‘The Conversation’. ‘Shadow Of Fear’ was a nice way to bow out, albeit unintentionally, and tracks like this embodies everything that CV came t be known for over the years. The funk, the sense of space and menace. The sample which ever so slightly dissonant. The undercurrent of middle eastern rhythm patterns, more pervasive than you might have realised.
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