Review: Uzi Rash – High & Phree
Uzi Rash – High & Phree (2009) [Freedom School] // Grade: B+
Hopefully you all remember Uzi Rash from our second installment of The Creepy Touch. Well the mysterioso Brooklyn band with an indeterminate amount of members who all adorn dinosaur masks have finally released their debut album, High & Phree and it’s a blessed little doozy of weird lo-fi goodness!
From the opening rhythmic rattle of “Under Pressure” through to the the creepy yet comforting closer “End Times” it’s hard not to get wrapped up in by Uzi Rash’s jangly spell. Before you know it, you’re in whatever tin can the album was recorded wading waist deep in the sort of primal nostalgic glee I can only compare to the soothing warmth of staring at vintage Halloween decorations.
Like that creepy unkept house at the end of the street you grew up on, High & Phree may not look like much, but it’s sloppy, rudimentary yet ridiculously rigid rhythms have the power to pull you into it’s charming and rickety world for extended stays and repeat visits. Songs rattle out as lovingly worn cornucopia of reverberated Blues riffs, Folk and Country refrains that will keep you coming back to hunt for buried treasures you may have missed the first time around.
