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Los Angeles-! based Upsilon Acrux is among the best of the young bands
(The Flying Luttenbachers, Hella, Ahleuchatistas) transforming punk
rock's landscape, reinvigorating punk's physically powerful,
aggressive and speed-driven sound by infusing it with a compositional
intensity and technical prowess long associated with various forms of
metal (speedcore, technical metal, thrash) and progressive rock. In
Upsilon Acrux's hands, this sonic fusion results in an explosive new
music that is both exhilarating and abstract. While the band cites an
encyclopedic array of influences -- everything from progressive and
math rock (Henry Cow, King Crimson, Magma, Univers Zero, The Muffins,
The Ruins, The Flying Luttenbachers, Zappa, Don Caballero); Krautrock
(Faust, Neu!, Kraftwerk); metal and death metal (Morbid Angel,
Necrophagist, Meshuggah, Frederick Thordendal's Special Defects); the
energy and spirituality of jazz and free jazz (John Coltrane, Ornette
Coleman and The Mahavishnu Orchestra); and more (This Heat, Nels
Cline) -- and proclaims "any version of Magma" as its "favorite rock
band ever" -- its music is not derivative of, nor directly comparable
to, any one band -- or any pre-established genre. An abstract tapestry
of complex and hyperkinetic instrumental sound, Upsilon Acrux's music
is composed of disparate elements, dissonance and unexpected time
changes daringly interwoven with, and/or punctuated by, beautiful and
accessible melodies.
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I'm pretty sure it's gonna come out on Cuneiform. We've spoken with (label founder) Steve Feigenbaum, and he seemed really excited. The funniest part is that he signed us off of YouTube. He saw a YouTube performance(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2OWITz3Ldo) and got in contact with me the next day. We've known about Cuneiform for a while, 'cause we're into all that stuff -- Henry Cow,
Univers Zero, Fred Frith. The association is great -- it kinda legitimizes us. We've been doing this thing for a long time -- the faster modern prog stuff as long as anybody other than Ruins. Before the Flying Luttenbachers, before Sleeping People, before Orthrelm.