Simply Saucer
Reckless Agitation EP
(Logan Hardware // Galactic Archive)
Hamilton, ON
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From the speeding Chevy of Jesse Locke:

For my money, this is hands down the dig of the year! Hamilton’s hallowed heroes of electrified proto-punk have one of the sparsest discographies known to man, so an EP of previously unheard songs from their ’70s halcyon days is a gift from the spaceways.

Dates, line-ups and fidelities vary throughout these four tunes, but this is Simply Saucer in relatively restrained live action mode, not the Sister Ray-damaged Jackson Square epics heard on side two of Cyborgs Revisited. The title track (1977) churns and chugs like “I Fought The Law” covered by actual criminals, as frontman Edgar Breau froths with a mouth full of gravel. “Oh So Much” (1975) slows down the carousel for a jangly jaunt that sounds like the Kinks fronted by Lou at his semi-sweetest, ending with a flatline yee haw. “Give It Away” (1976) knocks on the doors of never never land with some questions (from the liners: If it’s a slide gtr it’s Alex Pollington, if it’s just electric gtr it’s Steve Park) but it’s fine six-string wrangling no matter whose hands are behind it. … Read More »