We in Wussy have long been fans of Uncut Magazine, so we’re extra thrilled to score a review in their September 09 issue. Now that we’ve finally made it across the pond in print, we hope to follow with our SEVLES later this fall (in November, not September as originally planned). Bonus!: The review happens to fall in a special Beatles edition with a CD full of their influences.

“Breakthrough third full-length from Cincinnati indie darlings – Recalling a roll call of adventurous boy/girl-styled indie bands – Yo La Tengo, Handsome Family, X – Wussy draws on plenty of yin/yang sexual and existential tension, a charmingly shambling, rough-hewn sound, and an army of alternately droning and jangling guitars on their sharpest outing yet.”

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Link to article: Listening Log 04: Bob Dylan, Sonic Youth, Wussy

Wussy — Wussy (Shake It): I was a fan of Cincinnati rocker Chuck Cleaver’s ’90s band the Ass Ponys, so when I heard a few years ago he’d started a new band, Wussy, I made a mental note. (No, I don’t know what the deal is with this dude and his band names.) But a record never crossed my desk, limited discretionary music spending always ended up elsewhere, and appearances at SXSW always conflicted with something more pressing, so I never got around to checking Cleaver’s new band out. Until now — and oh, what I’ve been missing.

Here Cleaver shares or trades the spotlight with fellow singer/songwriter/guitarist Lisa Walker. They’re an extraordinary pair trafficking in the most ordinary of styles — sturdy Midwestern bar rock. He’s a big man with a flat, high-pitched, nasally Neil Young tenor. She’s a slim woman with a deeper, more fraught vocal tone. He specializes in loopy metaphors and leftfield imagery. She’s conversational — concrete but poetic. Together they are perfect. (more…)

A new review up from Atlanta’s “Stomp & Stammer” magazine:

“Wussy delivers a distinctly Ohio brand of meat and potatoes rock and roll with a dose of Appalachian twang and a sardonic, lunchpail worldview. It’s like the slightly touched aunt and uncle R.E.M. keep tucked away in the attic bedroom…. Cleaver has found his ideal foil in Walker. She’s a true songwriting equal in style and quality as well as quantity, her world-weary yet defiant voice providing a welcome respite from Cleaver’s appealing but unconventional tenor.”

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