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Answers - Ui
  • Band Name: Ui
  • Record Label: Southern
  • Release Date: Jun 24, 2003
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critics What's this?

  • Summary: The New York-based but Chicago-sounding post-rock outfit (think Isotope 217 or Tortoise) founded by Sasha Frere-Jones offers 13 new tracks on their first LP since 1998, and their first with new bassist (one of two) Erik Sanko of Skeleton Key.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Answers has a heavy downtown spirit, with standard instruments played in a unique fashion, and an aggressive interplay that's nearly antagonistic.
  2. Answers is a document of how good instrumentals can be written without walls clearly delineating where the verse ends and the chorus begins.
  3. At their worst, Ui thrash like run of the mill math-rockers, basses turned to 11 and meandering loudly.... What rescues them is a burgeoning melodic sensibility. [#233, p.71]

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