Album Review: Sabatta – Misfit Music

London duo Sabatta are preparing to unleash their own inimitable style of rock music to a wider audience through the release of sophomore album, Misfit Music, that is due out on 4th June 2018 via Blackfriars Entertainment. Misfit Music is an album that combines a multitude of influences where Sabatta embrace their love of rock, punk, funk, metal, soul and psychedelic music to create a genre defying and uncompromising album for a new generation.

Sabatta have a mantra that serves them well, ‘fuck genres, fuck labels, fuck rules and fuck fitting in’, that is borne out on their aptly titled album, Misfit Music, the album’s opening track, Rock Star Shit, delivers the kind of off kilter riff that is reminiscent of Living Colour at their best that is overlaid with a smooth hip hop vocal delivery. Over the course of the eight cuts that make up the album you get the impression that every single track on Misfit Music draws it’s influences from different sources, my personal highlight from Misfit Music is the lead single and a track that is the album’s logical conclusion, Scream Of Consciousness, that seems to embed just about every influence together in one genre bending track.

With their sophomore album Sabatta have launched an album that draws it’s influences from everywhere, there are traces of everyone from Living Colour and Queens Of The Stone Age through to McAlmont & Butler and Faith No More all the way to Pere Ubu and Bad Brains thrown into the mix. The issue I found with Sabatta‘s latest release that it doesn’t seem to have a coherent identity, the net is cast so wide across the eight tracks that despite the originality and the quality of the songwriting I found myself wondering who the album was aimed at, the answer in all probability is that Sabatta are making exactly the album they wanted to make with no fucks given what anyone else thinks.

Misfit Music can be pre-ordered via iTunes here

Sabatta‘s website can be found here