Uncut 'Modern Currencies' album

Canada’s Uncut is like a force of nature. Totally out of control. Frenzied, loud like early '90s touchstones Swervedriver and Dinosaur Jr. or even perhaps The Jesus & Mary Chain. Seriously. The cascading guitar squall, pounding rhythms and bass lines on their latest beast, Modern Currencies, are about to punch you in the face. Brace yourself.

But the band didn’t just stumble over its sound. It’s taken a couple years, a few records, and plenty of shows to fully develop. After the success of 2004’s Those Who Were Hung Hang Here, indie-rock legend and ex-Husker-dude, Bob Mould, asked Uncut to open for his 2006 tour, which was, according to the band, "the loudest series of shows we've ever been to." After two years of regular touring and sharing the stage with Death From Above 1979, Metric, Sloan, and The Walkmen, and playing both CMJ and SxSX, Uncut have this whole “LOUD AS FUCK” thing down to a science.

You’ll notice it the second you listen to Modern Currencies, self produced, recorded and engineered by Jon Drew (Uncut’s drummer and producer for both Tokyo Police Club and Magneta Lane) and mixed by John O’Mahony (Metric, Dashboard Confessional, LCD Soundsystem). This puppy is aggressive. In a good way. A really, really good way. Don’t you think? These folks certainly do:

"Jagged riffs and hypnotic beats yield the album Interpol should have made." – Billboard

“Combining dieseled guitar lines with Worang's gauze-covered vocals, the band's forceful sound and savoir-faire carve nuances into a genre that by now has little room for invention.” - Pitchfork

“Churning, staccato, hard-drummed, precision-tooled, electronics-augmented, deadpan-recited hard rock by Deadly Snakes cronies from Toronto.” – Village Voice

"...crosses the stripped-down power of the Strokes with the noise of Sonic Youth and a dash of Bauhaus gloom.” - New York Post

“Uncut has evolved into a force to be reckoned with” - Scene and Heard

“an epic wall of sound” - Wavelength

Ian Worang – Guitar, Vocals
Sam Goldberg – Guitar, Vocals
Jon Drew – Drums, Percussion
Derek Tokar – Bass, Vocals

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Uncut - Modern Currencies