DUB THOMPSON'S musical influences travel from the Midwestern malaise of Big Black and Pere Ubu, to Kraut pioneers Can and Kraftwerk, while bowing to the British belligerence of The Fall and This Heat. Intense blasts of hook-filled noise rock, rocksteady marionette stomp, hypnotic bouts of doomy poetics, outlandishly sexy groove rock, and a number of other bite-sized forays into parts unknown are made manifest across '9 Songs'.