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)