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Uncle Woe Post “Mania for Breaking” Video

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The intention behind Uncle Woe‘s new video would seem pretty clearly to be to give a sampling of what the project’s debut album, Our Unworn Limbs (review here), is all about, and in that regard, the song “Mania for Breaking” is more than suited to the purpose. At a little under five minutes, it is the shortest of the pieces on Our Unworn Limbs by a wide margin — the minute-long acoustic departure “When the Night Fell In Pt. 2” that precedes it notwithstanding — but still captures the tonal crunch and atmospheric reach of the album’s longer material. The video put together by Rain Fice, who also happens to be the sole figure behind the Ontario-based solo-project (more on that in a bit), is animated weirdness that underscores the emotional tumult on display in the chugging riffs and YOB-style cosmic atmosphere.

Video, song and album alike are equal parts entrancing and strange. The animation comes across with the avant feel of a darker Terry Gilliam, but still feels on-theme with the track it complements, moth-lady to the moon and all. Elsewhere on the record, 10-plus-minute songs like “Son of the Queen,” “That’s How They Get You” and the 15-minute closer “Push the Blood Back In” unfurl some of the same textures of “Mania for Breaking” on a grander scale of melody and heft, but particularly with the visual accompaniment, there’s enough here to begin to get the point across at least to a degree that one might be tempted to, say, stream the record in full via Bandcamp. Fortunately there’s a player embedded at the bottom of the post for precisely that purpose.

As noted, Uncle Woe is a solo-project, but my understanding is Fice‘s intent is to put a group of together and begin a full, live incarnation of it as a band. What that will ultimately look like, I don’t know — trio, four-piece, dude-plus-drummer, etc. — but it means that, if it happens, the follow-up to Our Unworn Limbs will invariably have a different dynamic, provided those players actually appear on the record as well. So as much as “Mania for Breaking” is a sampling of Our Unworn Limbs, maybe the album too is just a sampling of things to come from Uncle Woe as Fice gets the band going. Given what he achieves on his own with this debut, to say I’m intrigued to find out what happens next would be putting it mildly.

Video and album stream follow. Please enjoy:

Uncle Woe, “Mania for Breaking” official video

Now you can enjoy Uncle Woe at your next video dance party!

Official music video for, “Mania for Breaking,” from Uncle Woe’s Debut LP, “Our Unworn Limbs.”

Available for digital and assorted physical purchases at Bandcamp: https://unclewoe.bandcamp.com/releases

Hailing from the oft frozen hills of rural Canada, Uncle Woe is a phantom limb, shown here wielding some bludgeoning tool against mostly true tales of bittersweet sorrow, revenge, and regret.

Uncle Woe, Our Unworn Limbs (2019)

Uncle Woe on Thee Facebooks

Uncle Woe on Instagram

Uncle Woe on Bandcamp

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One Response to “Uncle Woe Post “Mania for Breaking” Video”

  1. Dave $1 says:

    This is good.

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