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Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

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Pere Ubu's second album, 1979's Dub Housing, is widely heralded as a postpunk classic—but here, "postpunk" has more to do with the era in which it arrived than the sounds it contained. If anything, its reconstructive approach has more in common with the cubist avant-rock of Captain Beefheart than anything punk-related. Though the Cleveland mavericks came from punky roots, their early albums are a gleefully shattered funhouse mirror of styles. Over the course of Dub Housing, you can identify sonic shards of twisted sea shanties ("Caligari's Mirror"), experimental electronic music ("Thriller!"), proto-industrial mayhem ("Blow, Daddy-o"), and jazz-inflected dub reggae (the title track). But all those elements are filtered through the fractured Pere Ubu perspective to produce something entirely "other"—especially with David Thomas' high-pitched yelp alternating between giddiness and mania for a sound previously unheard anywhere within the broadest definition of "rock."

Customer Reviews

Amazing

Great album, precursor to pixies. Unique use of synthesizer that gives the album the feeling of a spooky movie. Makes you want to dance.... And yelp

Great Artist

Great album from Cleveland legends; however, iTunes has let us down yet again. Where is Pere Ubu's debut album, The Modern Dance? It's just as incredible as this one!!

DUB STEP

The best Pere Ubu album ever.

Biography

Formed: August, 1975 in Cleveland, OH

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Pere Ubu emerged from the urban wastelands of mid-'70s Cleveland to impact the American underground for generations to follow; led by hulking frontman David Thomas, whose absurdist warble and rapturously demented lyrics remained the band's creative focus throughout their long, convoluted career, Ubu's protean art punk sound harnessed self-destructing melodies, scattershot rhythms, and industrial-strength dissonance to capture the angst and chaos of their times with both apocalyptic fervor and surprising...
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