Ugly Sundae - Defenestration EP 
Release Date: Out Now
It has been a while since I’ve
had a rant about the difference between an EP and an album based on track
length but this new release by Westcountry solo artist Ugly Sundae has forced
me to revisit this conundrum. The seven tracks featured on ‘Defenestration’
strays into the no man’s land between the six tracks (maximum) of an EP and the
ideal ten to twelve tracks of an album but I’m going to have to look beyond
that to focus on the music. Opening track ‘Smothered’ chugs into life like the
haunted acoustic guitar of Kurt Cobain with drawled vocals and a splashing beat
barely holding the grunge stylings together. ‘Fresh Linen’ has a similarly
lo-fi vibe but there are hints of Iggy Pop and the Velvet Underground behind those
gritted-teeth vocals.
As you might expect from the title, ‘Dance With Me’ is a little more up-tempo musically with a searing but rusty guitars and an urgent beat giving the downbeat, beat-poet inspired vocals an injection of energy. The background chatter behind ‘Fed Up’ is soon silenced but a buzzsaw riff and garage band riff before ‘Ape Shit’ stumbles in drunk looking for a fight or a good time…or both. ‘Our Love Will Last’ has an energy that flits between Jamie T, the Fall and the Streets and closing track ‘Railroad Tracks’ is a chugging garage punk lament with a performative element to it that suggests it would be intoxicating to hear live. This is rough, ready and thoroughly enjoyable so I’ll put aside my issues with the numbers of tracks and just recommend that you give this one a spin.
More information: https://www.uglysundae.com/