Off-kilter indie trio Ubiquitous Meh! have a history of celebrating being weird and eccentric. Their new album Oddville is a continuation of their organ-driven take on hectic post-punk. Think a meeting of minds of members of the Stranglers, the Cure, Pixies, and early Joy Division. This is music to sing along too, while indulding into a bunch of freeform moves that they don't teach you at dance schools.
The band's singer and songwriter Luke Richards approach to his lyrics is pretty straighforward: pick an issue and decide that it is OK to just call it by its name, fully embracing it as something that is just part of his mental get-up. Add a bit of sardonic, self-depracating humour and he has found a way to give a whole new meaning to that tired epithet called self-empowerment.
Oddville is a self-released album (vinyl, CD, digital). Buy it from their website. The CD also contains the tracks from the Love Pseudomorph album.
Tracks:- Oddville
- Patriotic For Earth (What A Rock!) (We've Got!)
- Workin' On My Lore
- Just One More Thing
- Ball Of Dissonance
- I'm Ambivalent
- Don't Encourage Them
- 04/19 Leadworks, Plymouth, UK
- 04/26 Exeter Cavern, Exeter, UK
- 07/05 The Shacklewell Arms, London, UK
HCTF review of the Love Pseudomorph
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