Yowie
(Saint Louis, MO)


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website: http://www.myspace.com/yowie
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This youngish St. Louis trio of guitar, guitar and drums has upped the 'brutal prog' ante light-years forward with an epic release that successfully mates insane, mathematical non-repetition with a frenzied, dissonant, microtonal attack that has more in common with the grittiness of prime Magic Band rather than the wimpy, uptight sub-Weather Report pro sound" that so many math-rock dweebs aim for. Music is in the fingers, not in the awesome gear, you Guitar Center devotees! Those that want to hear an album that those hacks at The Wire will probably canonize and rave about in 20 years (but not a minute sooner), this is one of them. Yowie is just too vital, aberrant and sick to be understood by cultural dilettantes…The real stuff never is in its own time. People like things to be long gone or watered-down by time so it can't spit in their faces with real, raw life." Weasel Walter, Dusted Magazine

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