The question of how The Velvet Underground could have sounded if the group had been there for another ten years is at the same time an endless discussion and an extremely interesting issue. Endless because the answer will of course never be known; extremely interesting because the band could have evolved in a completely different direction. One possible direction could already be the minimalistic trajectory that Bob Urh & The Bare Bones has been following for three records. – Jurgen Dignef, Goddeau.com (NL) (18 April 2011)
Tracklisting:
1. Intro
2. I’m a Man (Ellas Otha/Bo Diddley)
3. Alexandra
4. Hell (revisited)
5. Jetset Possibility
6. Carnival Song (aka The Bored Barker)
7. Fogged
8. Everybody Wants to be a Punk Rocker
9. Country Song #1
10. Two Sisters
11. After The Sun part 2
12. Soda Pop
13. Right Baby Right
14. The Bone Dust Blues
Reviews:
Bob Urh, of the erstwhile psych-garage masters Ultra 5, has released his new album: a deep dive into the sounds of the late ’50s and early ‘60s. A seriously lo-fi job with minimal instrumentation, these songs sound like they were performed in a 1x1m booth and recorded on a tape machine that happened to be lying about in the room next door! Psychobilly, blues, garage and a plethora of further influences permeate this album whose every note seems to emit authenticity as well as an indispensable sense of healthy paranoia, aided by a sublime lack of sophistication in the instruments and recording equipment departments. Hell sounds deadly, as garage tracks go, and is free of the genre’s sonic clichés; While Soda Pop bears the traces of Floyd’s schizophrenic masterwork Pow r Toch! Bob Urh’s The Cha Cha Cha Review is a musical path that may be hard to tread and whose outcome is uncertain; yet it is for this very reason that its genius shines all the more brightly. – Peace Frog / Gew-Gaw fanzine (GR)