Dub Housing
Pere Ubu

Weird as fuck lol - for that reason alone, it's worth at least one full listen. Per the website's description: "The title is an allusion to the visual echoes of blocks of identical row houses in Baltimore, presumably reminiscent of the echo and reverberation that characterize dub." If only those same Baltimore rowhouses were still as alive, quirky, and vibrant as the bizarre vocals and instrumentation of this album. All that's left today are mostly echoes of what once was. However, I'd be lying if I said I'd ever be inclined to revisit this one. At best it's weird and experimental; at worst, it's meandering and grating on the ears. It holds up solely as a way of transporting the listener back to the late 70s to see what was weird and 'progressive' back then.

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