BOOTLEG: EXCLUSIVE GOES CUBE TRACK, “LOOSE ENDS”

In our never-ending quest to give you, the reader, the best music available, we present the Revolver Bootleg series. Throughout each month, we’ll post cool, new, and often-exclusive tracks right here for you to hear before anyone else.

This installment is a rare, non-album cut by NYC metal oufit Goes Cube. The song, “Loose Ends,” originally appeared on the band’s now out-of-print EP, Hutchinson, but didn’t make the cut when the band was picking tracks to include on their new, debut album, Another Day Has Passed (The End), which just hit stores on May 12. Read on to see what vocalist-guitarist David Obuchowski has to say about why the song was left on the cutting room floor, and why some of those close to the band disagree with that decision.

REVOLVER What’s this song about?
DAVID OBUCHOWSKI It's literally about loose ends, specifically loose ends from a goal/direction standpoint. There was a time in my life—the time I wrote it—where I felt the most rudderless, and I felt determined to change it.

Which part of it did you come up with first? And what was the inspiration?
That pretty guitar lead that happens in the middle of the song, which then turns distorted and eventually leads to the final chorus. We don't have a lot of those type parts in our songs, and we all loved it. From there, we easily and mutually built out the rest of the song, next with the choruses, and last with the intro riff, which I'm still not entirely pleased with. From a musical standpoint, I was still fairly new to the Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus amplifier and fascinated with the different tones and sounds. So that was a driving force behind the song.

Was this an easy song to write or record? Why or why not?
It was a very easy song to write. At least 99-percent of it. Like I said, I'm not 100-percent happy with the opening riff, that sort of staccato guitar lead. I'm not sure if it's the riff, or how it comes through recorded. This is one of those songs where, for us, we've never been entirely happy with it on record, and we've never been entirely happy with it live. It's like, it's perfect environment is in our cramped practice space, where it can be pretty, brutal, urgent, raw, patient, measured. But on record and live, it always seems to be too skewed to one end of the spectrum. The irony is, after some close friends heard the recording of it, they said it was their favorite song. Still for us, we were never fully pleased.

Why did this song not make the album?
We recorded more songs than we mutually agreed on having. This song and one other one simply didn't make the cut. There wasn't any debate about it between the three of us and the producer. Incidentally, our manager fought tooth and nail to keep it on the record, as he always thought it was a stronger piece. But he was outvoted.

What sort of feedback have you gotten on this song so far?
Besides what I kind of covered already, there hasn't been much feedback. So we're eager to hear what people think!

Goes Cube: "Loose Ends"