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| Subject | Simply Saucer in Mojo |
| Date | Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:44:18 EDT |
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Mojo Magazine
London, UK
May 2005 Issue # 138
SIMPLY SAUCER
Cyborgs Revisited
(Sonic Unyon)
CANADIAN PROTO-PUNKS’ 18 LIVE AND STUDIO CUTS
While major cities grab the attention as trend leaders, the strange musical
mutations that emerge from more out of the way enclaves can be even more
striking. Rarely has the point been made as forcefully as by Hamilton, Ontario’s
Simply Saucer. They only released one single, in 1974 [sic!], a case of wrong
place, wrong time. Yet Simply Saucer were the missing link between the
psychedelia of Pink Floyd circa Interstellar Overdrive, the velocity and rawness of
Pebbles bands like The Outcasts, and the sci-fi punk futurism of Chrome. An
erratically signaling synth links early Roxy Music to Pere Ubu. Add a few Lou
Reedisms in the vocals and there you have it. The ’75 live set may err towards
the conventional; the studio set still sounds like nothing else.
FOUR STARS
(Mike Barnes)
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