Album of the day: Cable – The Failed Convict

Lovingly pichced from Lambgoat:  Although there has been some life in the Cable camp over the last few years — the release of the retrospective Last Call, brief spurts of live shows, and the re-release of their first full-length — the Connecticut group still appeared to be relatively dormant for the past four or so years. But with a move to The End records and the recording of The Failed Convict, the year of renewed activity from an alliterated string of turn-of-the-century favorites continues to gain momentum. Coalesce, Cave In, and Cable are all operational again. These are wonderful times indeed.

With roughly a dozen members over the years and a discography that succeeded across a wide range of heavy genres, it was tough to pinpoint exactly where Cable was planning to head with the new release. In the end, it’s a staggering, burly beast of a rock record that touches on all of the places that they’ve been, but still tests the waters of a few different songwriting directions.

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