The reissues of In Gut’s House and Griller highlight how far ahead Ut were.
I was mesmerized when I first listened to Velvet Underground’s “Venus in Furs” and just wanted to make music that sounded like that.
To London-based, New York City-bred pioneering power-trio Ut, No Wave meant “…breaking things down to the raw essentials, ignoring rules and inventing new ones.”
Every truly great band transcends their medium, and Ut were —ultimately, completely, indelibly— themselves.
Part of the late '70s coterie of downtown avant-garde noise extremists known as No Wave, Ut began life in late 1978.
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Ut: Influential No Wave trio, name-checked in Le Tigre’s anthemic “Hot Topic,” cited by labelmates Sonic Youth as an influence, and playing their first shows since 1990.