The Uncannibals

The Uncannibals
With most bands, you can pretty much tell what the rest of a certain song (or indeed the rest of their album, or perhaps their entire career) is going to sound like by listening to the first 30 seconds of the first song you play. The Uncannibals are not that band. On their debut release EXPERIMENTS IN POPULAR MUSIC, each song is structured like a mini DJ set with all kinds of surprises cropping up that you will not see coming. Lead off track ELECTRIC CARS mixes Motown, Shoegaze, Neu!-style motorik krautrock and Augustus Pablo’s dub melodica. THE BEST THING sounds like RUBBER SOUL-era Beatles, until it doesn’t. SHABBY WALTZ comes across like a lost mid-’60’s collaboration between Ann Arbor noise pioneer Robert Ashley and Burt Bacharach. SLUMMING IT is Terry Riley or Steve Reich re-mixing My Bloody Valentine. SKYLINE BLUES is what the Smiths might have sounded like if they had been produced by Brian Eno. GLORY HILL is an experimental EDM mix compiled by Dj Scientist Sam from tapes sent to him from the band, with elements of Chic, Kraftwerk, New Age self-help tapes and bhangra. And the final track SHADOW WATCHING is a lo-fi space-rock jam recorded live in the drummer’s basement on a mono cassette recorder. In the course of 7 tracks and 45 minutes the Uncannibals go from pure pop to harsh noise to ambient soundscapes to minimalist avant-garde to shoegaze to dub to post-punk. As if that wasn’t enough, the B-side contains a mix compiled at random from a pool of over 100 songs and over 9 hours of music. Each mix will be completely different and unique to each cassette (100 C92 cassettes, 100 different 46 minute mixes). To be released on October 8th for Cassette Store Day.

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