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Oct 29, 2013The five-piece Montreal/Toronto noise-pop band keep things compositionally complex throughout, and each song rolls seamlessly into the next.
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Oct 29, 2013UZU is an album that uproots us and transports us into the unknown, but it's an adventure that we would happily go on again and again.
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Oct 29, 2013UZU is stunning and melodic, and consistently absorbing.
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May 12, 2014Their 2011 debut album was nominated for the Polaris Prize, Canada’s equivalent of the Mercury--although UZU, its follow-up, is bolder, rangier and more ambitious than anything likely to trouble that bauble’s orbit.
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Nov 1, 2013YT // ST is not subtle, yet it’s still simultaneously visceral and generally accessible, while maintaining its unique voice.
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Nov 14, 2013If there’s a way in which UZU falls short of the band’s debut, it’s in the recording itself, which is a bit hazier this time out and consequently robs the music of some of the direct, visceral power it had on Yamantaka // Sonic Titan. That said, the songs and performances are good enough that it nearly doesn’t matter.
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Oct 29, 2013It's an art-rock opera, songs flowing together with vague narrative, ripe with melodrama, and more than a hint of heavy metal's suspension of disbelief demanded of each listener.
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May 7, 2014UZU is an ambitious piece of work to say the least, and whilst some of the metallic textures and tones may seem somewhat unfashionable these days, the purpose behind this record couldn’t be more forward-thinking and determined.
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Oct 29, 2013There are distinctly lesser tracks, and though they work within the album they don’t hold strong in the memory. What hold are the songs that feel entirely theirs, where the cultural references fuse into a new alloy hitherto unknown.