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I don’t dance cause I want to I dance cause I need to I’m gonna die to own this room Yeah I need this more than you I can’t help but wonder Is this romance? Standing still makes me confused What happened to the kid in you I wanna see ya play…
The Sequel - Ufoufo2: Hominid Catharsis
Once upon a time, Uzi Fox as well as Mihael Keehl were actually titled Ufoufo2 at some point. I knew from the inception of Ufoufo1 that a sequel was an inevitability, but as I came to the titling process toward the end of each album's creation I knew that they were too experiemental, not core enough to my sound. At the end of the day I'd been venturing so far from my source style, a Ufoufo2 was delayed again and again. Something happened after I recorded Joyboy. It was as if all of that mental blockage, that which halted Uzi Fox, nearly killed Mihael Keehl, paused the still-unreleased precursor to Joyboy, all of that obstacle had completely been obliterated. I was writing music with a newfound freedom. I sounded so... Ufoufoufo. So here it was, I knew by two tracks in, THIS was the album, THIS was the sequel to that humble mathcore beginning. This album is still so fresh in my mind, it's hard to say much. As I write this, the album has been out for only two months (though it feels like so much longer). What can I say other than this is my strongest foot forward? The production is at my best, the riffs are fun, the vocals are shredding, the lyrics are prose, and despite all of that it feels like just the beginning of the true Ufoufoufo era. This album is the one where I've found my sound. Experimentation will always be for me, but this is the style I want to hone. This is Ufoufoufo.
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More show posters from our upcoming tour! We've got a new song written in the same tuning as Tijuana from our last LP!
LIFE IN VACUUM - 1984 torontos okay
Marmozets at Slumdunk Midlands 2014 Photo credit : Steve Kilmister ©
Three new songs set. More coming. We're entering the story in July.
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stare at the door, can’t think no more I drag my feet across the floor staying up all night watch the seconds going by I'll walk with heavy shoulders till I reach the other side how many times have I said I’m not sure if I’m breathing but if I were to drop dead would that stop you from leaving somewhere far from where the waters lie I’ll try to find a quiet place to hide beginning to wonder why I try so hard to find the right moment to start so much time has passed me by you’re still waiting think I would forget the past I’m not crazy (I’m just lazy)
Artist: Go Daijo
Release: Boss Truck
There's something inherently youthful and exuberant about Seattle’s Go Daijo. Perhaps it’s their Cap’n Jazz-meets-Japandroids brand of math-punk. Or, maybe it's how they literally laugh their way through "Power Go," the first of two songs on their debut EP, Boss Truck. Either way, it sounds like a damn good time: drums crash chaotically into guitars, but the guitars hold their own, with spazzed-out melodies kept in line with consistently tight hooks.
Their second song, “Angel Hair” starts off on a slow, droning blues progression, before turning up the reverb and building into an upbeat post-punk number that maybe Television would have written back in the day. Singer / drummer Cameron LaFlam’s swaggering vibrato shines on this particular track, and basically, 5:15 onwards is divine.
Because of the ADHD nature of Go Daijo, what you really hear are 6, maybe 8, very short songs spanning a couple genres here, a couple decades there. Understandably, this seeming lack of coherency may be a turn off to some listeners. But on closer examination, Boss Truck is three dudes with a lot of ideas on the table, playing exactly what they want, when they want, how they want. And frankly, it's a very cool thing.
Shout out to Ryan Sadler for making cover art both beautiful and upsetting. Follow Go Daijo on Facebook [here], and buy their music on Bandcamp [here].
