Buke & Gass

Brooklyn duo Buke & Gass play homemade Frankenstein instruments that make beautiful and wild sproinging sounds--Arone Dyer's "buke" is a modified baritone ukelele; Aron Sanchez's "gass" is a mutant guitar/bass that he built from scratch. But their Brassland Records debut Riposte isn't some steampunk novelty--it's a unique, euphoric, distorto-fucked rock banger, a jarring, Geraldine Fibbers-style alt-chug given a fancy new lilt by erratic prog and African circular rhythms. (Christopher Weingarten, Village Voice)