Hailing from Chicago, IL and having been together for a decade, Tub Ring are a genre blending auditory feast who eschew everything from jazz, surf, funk, metal, rap, drum and bass, ambient and just about everything else one could think of into highly talented bursts of explosive auditory wizardry. Similar to the likes of Mr. Bungle, Nuclear Rabbit, Frank Zappa, Dog Fashion Disco and older Incubus, the band are extremely energetic and are dually as able to astonish as they are to alienate.

Vividly emphatic and animated, band frontman Kevin Gibson peppers each track with a warm Mike Patton reminiscent tonal delivery, that borderlines on schizophrenia in true Mr. Bungle styled fashion. The guitar work is immensely talented and accomplishes anything put in its path, belting out everything from thick modern metal based riffs to rapid paced surf plucking with the greatest of ease. The bass performance captured also follows the same guidelines, baffling the listener with potent rhythmic rumbles and funky slap and pop based heroics, while working quite closely with the riotous percussive performance, that detonates with skillful rolls and turbulent progressions. When all this is combined with the eerie and in your face keyboard playing of Rob Kleiner, Tub Ring manage to land somewhere smack-dab in the between quirky, avant garde nerdiness and brilliant musical genius.

With a nearly insatiable appetite, this five piece bounce from track to track and genre to genre like a raving mental patient, all the while doing it with such a talented and ambitious flair that its hard not to be swept up in it all. Rigidly paced and vividly colorful, its no surprise that this outing was produced and features performances by Mr. Bungle guitarist Trey Spruance, because from 60's reminiscent feel good singalong's all the way to agitated funk metal excursions, it is all pulled off exquisitely. Sure, the material contained here will probably drive a good portion of those who aren't prepared for it mad, and it can be a bit too out there now and then; But for those with quirky tastes that cater outside the mainstream, "Drake Equation" is nearly an auditory bible. Its rare to find a band that are talented, eager and open minded, not too mention, able to cognitively blend starkly contrasting genres and vastly turbulent song structures into a single continuos thread of musical enlightenment; But somehow, Tub Ring fit the aforementioned description perfectly, making them a true treat for those downtrodden and disenfranchised by the abundant lack of creativity and technical ability in the mainstream today.