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Ultrabunny - “Volume Merchants/Unsafe At Any Age” (TPOS 2010) Ultrabunny are a band based out of Connecticut with a long and varied history of old band names and whatnot.  I’m no historian of obscure bands based out of New England, so I won’t bore you with the details but members of Ultrabunny were once in a band called Bunny Brains and I’ll leave it at that. I leave it at that, because I’ve heard a good portion of Bunny Brains material, and I’ve also heard a good portion of Ultrabunny material (all of their vinyl output at least…they release small run tapes/CDrs of every live show they play) and Ultrabunny totally blow away anything Bunnybrains ever did.   Ultrabunny play an interesting psyched-out blend of space rock, punk, and noise.  Every song is improvised and jammed out until your head is pounding from the volume and your neck is broken from banging your head.  The bass and drums (which are fucking HEAVY) keep everything from falling apart while the guitarist/vocals plays his guitar in a way that sounds like he’s just stepping on it and messing with effects pedals (I’m sure he’s actually done that more often than not actually). All elements combine to make a sound that is equally disgusting and genius but not in a stupid artsy kind of way.  This is noise rock for the working man, all the fucked sounds you love without having to pretend to like shit like Stockhausen and whatnot.  I’m rambling now. This album consists of two suites, each taking up a side of the platter.  They are pieced together from various live shows to create two long trips of sonic goodness.  The sides really flow together well.  Each has their ups and downs chock full of spacey feedback loops and delayed sounds that seem to be going nowhere and then before you even realize the drums and bass will kick in and you have a heavy groove going.  I love this record, it’s definitely my favorite of their material I’ve heard so far.   Their website with email addresses so you can get this record: http://www.ultrabunny.com/ or here: http://www.malcolmtent.net/tpos.htm -Log PS: Check out this label to while you are at it, they put out their previous LP, as well as other awesome records: http://noiseville.com/home.html

Ultrabunny - “Volume Merchants/Unsafe At Any Age” (TPOS 2010)

Ultrabunny are a band based out of Connecticut with a long and varied history of old band names and whatnot.  I’m no historian of obscure bands based out of New England, so I won’t bore you with the details but members of Ultrabunny were once in a band called Bunny Brains and I’ll leave it at that.

I leave it at that, because I’ve heard a good portion of Bunny Brains material, and I’ve also heard a good portion of Ultrabunny material (all of their vinyl output at least…they release small run tapes/CDrs of every live show they play) and Ultrabunny totally blow away anything Bunnybrains ever did.  

Ultrabunny play an interesting psyched-out blend of space rock, punk, and noise.  Every song is improvised and jammed out until your head is pounding from the volume and your neck is broken from banging your head.  The bass and drums (which are fucking HEAVY) keep everything from falling apart while the guitarist/vocals plays his guitar in a way that sounds like he’s just stepping on it and messing with effects pedals (I’m sure he’s actually done that more often than not actually). All elements combine to make a sound that is equally disgusting and genius but not in a stupid artsy kind of way.  This is noise rock for the working man, all the fucked sounds you love without having to pretend to like shit like Stockhausen and whatnot.  I’m rambling now.

This album consists of two suites, each taking up a side of the platter.  They are pieced together from various live shows to create two long trips of sonic goodness.  The sides really flow together well.  Each has their ups and downs chock full of spacey feedback loops and delayed sounds that seem to be going nowhere and then before you even realize the drums and bass will kick in and you have a heavy groove going.  I love this record, it’s definitely my favorite of their material I’ve heard so far.  

Their website with email addresses so you can get this record:

http://www.ultrabunny.com/

or here:

http://www.malcolmtent.net/tpos.htm

-Log

PS: Check out this label to while you are at it, they put out their previous LP, as well as other awesome records:

http://noiseville.com/home.html

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