Uncle Bad Touch
Uncle Bad Touch
Bumby

Retro fuzz from a trio of Montreal scamps, including Priestess’ main man, Mikey Heppner, who’s found a weirdly raucous outlet for his progressive tendencies with friends Kathryn McCaughey and Shawn Butchart, who come together with all the charm and mystery of urban ne’er-do-wells sittin’ on a stoop, smokin’ cigarettes, and slackin’ off. Much like the band’s maligned name, the songs on Uncle Bad Touch’s self-titled debut scratch away at your mind like a repressed memory and blink like a wired third eye thanks to all the lo-fi riffing, vocal squealing, freaky grooves, and meandering flute. What I mean is there’s whole bunch of strange love (natch) on this record, a sort of acid-fried satori and electric soul that seems to draw its sketchy influences from the downer rock of the late 60s, and should please fans of Witch, RTX/Royal Trux, Danava, or Dungen.

Listen to “Blow Your Mind” from Uncle Bad Touch!

Black Wizard
Black Wizard
Self-released

Ok, so I’m not sure this album is entirely new, but it’s new to me, and as you’re reading this the young Canucks in Black Wizard are putting the finishing touches on the vinyl version, so that’ll be new, got it? And by finishing touches I mean they are silk screening every single goddamn record jacket. That’s instant cred right there, and not just because I have a raging boner for all things rock n’ roll and all things silk screen, but because there’s no doubt that during this awesomely messy DIY process one of ‘em will get ripped to the tits on cheap beer, lose a finger tip in a freak silk screening accident, and bleed all over the freshly painted jackets. I would kill a child with a shoe to get my hands on one of those soiled copies, let me tell you.

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