Biography
The UV Race, an Australian band from Melbourne, describe their sound as "avant-tard" and "idiot savant punk rock." Their approach merges the basic framework of garage punk with an intentionally askew delivery that lands between calculated rawness and art-damaged confrontation. The lineup came together in 2007 and includes guitarist Alistair Montfort, singer Marcus Rechsteiner, keyboardist Alex Glazov, Georgia Rose on saxophone and harmonica, bassist Moses Williams, and drummer Dan Stewart. Their debut performance took place in July 2007, followed later that year by a cassette demo that signaled an enduring preference for lo-fi analog formats. After several cassette-only outings, the group advanced to vinyl in mid-2008 with the 7" "Lego Man," issued by the Australian independent label Aarght Records. Aarght also released a subsequent split-live cassette shared with Eddy Current Suppression Ring; Mikey Young of that band became an early supporter and has produced the majority of the UV Race’s recordings. American independent label SS Records brought out the next 7", "Malaria," in July 2009, while the band’s first full-length album arrived later the same year on Aarght, initially available only on cassette before later reissues on CD and LP. The UV Race made their initial visit to the United States in 2010, with the schedule featuring a performance at that year’s Gonerfest in Memphis, Tennessee, and the Fashionable Idiots label issued another 7", "I Hate You," that fall. Early 2011 saw the release of the "Acid Trip" 7" on Sweet Rot Records, followed at the end of March by the second album, Homo, on the noted American garage-punk imprint In the Red Records. The band next created the soundtrack for the film Autonomy and Deliberation, which appeared in November 2012 around the same period as the studio album Racism.
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