Cubgod is the experimental hip-hop project of Los Angeles native Aaron Silverstein. The project began in mid-2019 when he began making original beats for local artists and friends, then quickly decided to add his own vocals to the tracks to capture the exact feeling he was looking for. His first official release was “We Aint Friends No More,” the lead single off his debut EP, “7 Mondays A Week.”
“So Icky” is a track off Cubgod’s forthcoming album ‘Spooky Action.’
Written and recorded in two days, “So Icky” represents the most selfish leg of any journey from one state of mind to the next – the part where you consciously decide to only think about yourself. You say to yourself “if I just focus on my situation, how great I think I am, and If I repeat over and over again ‘this sounds so tight,’ I can convince myself that the world isn’t so scary, I don’t suck, I won’t die, and people like me.“ It’s self-hypnotism at it’s most dangerous – willfully ignoring everything else and believing that’ll make the problems go away.
"To me, all of that feels like someone who’s a jet-engine about to explode,” Silverstein says. “So the world’s most disgusting, buzzing bass was all I needed to find the soul of this track. I write all of my music analogue first (on guitar, piano, or drums) then transcribe into a beat. So when I live-drummed to the bassline I kept repeating this drumroll which felt like a flashy introduction to a new idea with every new bar. In the end, I kept it and "So Icky” was born.
Forthcoming album ‘Spooky Action’ follows one person’s journey from Apathy to Sympathy, from not caring to want to fix The Problem and every emotion in-between. The album was written, performed, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Aaron Silverstein (Cubgod) in his garage over the span of 8 months.
Links
https://soundcloud.com/cubgod
https://www.instagram.com/fmcubgod
