Listen to U-Men’s “Gila” + “The Fumes” from their forthcoming, self-titled anthology

Listen to U-Men’s “Gila” and “The Fumes” from their forthcoming, self-titled anthology

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Listen: “Gila” YouTube: https://youtu.be/Av4VCs2OAoI Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2y3vPkR Apple Music: http://apple.co/2y4fZ9X Listen: “The Fumes” YouTube: https://youtu.be/EUkwzL8eFq0 Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2flZwSP Apple Music: http://apple.co/2fnlEMP (All links cleared to post) U-Men available worldwide November 3rd, 2017 from Sub Pop

You can now listen to “Gila” and “The Fumes,” two audio offerings from the U-Men’s forthcoming, self-titled anthology, available worldwide on Friday, November 3rd, 2017 from Sub Pop. U-Men is a comprehensive and remastered collection, which compiles the entire studio-recorded output of The U-Men, plus five unreleased songs, with a 16-page book of photos, liner notes, and interviews with the band. The U-Men anthology was executive produced by Jack Endino. “Gila” [link here] was initially available on the group’s first EP, released by Bruce Pavitt on Bombshelter Records. The track would reappear years later on the Sub Pop 100compilation, and a split single with the Melvins for Amphetamine Reptile’s Sugar Daddy Live! series. Meanwhile, “The Fumes” [link here] was found on the tracklisting for Stop Spinning, the group’s second EP originally released by Homestead Records. U-Men is now available for preorder from Sub Pop [link here] and is available in the following formats: 3xLP box set housed in a cardboard slipcase with printed inner sleeves + 16-page booklet 2xCD digipack with custom dust sleeves + 16-page booklet Digitally More on the U-Men from Mudhoney’s Mark Arm:  The U-Men are one of the best bands I’ve ever seen. They were hypnotic, frenetic, powerful and compelling. It was impossible to resist getting sucked into their weird, darkly absurd world. They effortlessly blended The Sonics, Link Wray, Pere Ubu, and Captain Beefheart. Their shows were loose-limbed, drunken dance parties and no two shows were alike. The U-Men were avant garage explorers and, most importantly, they fucking rocked. I was lucky enough to live in their hometown and I saw them every chance I could. From 1983 to 1987, the U-Men were the undisputed kings of the Seattle Underground. No one else came close. They ruled a bleak backwater landscape populated by maybe 200 people. They were the only band that could unify the disparate sub-subcultures and get all 200 of those people to fill a room. Anglophilic, dress-dark Goths; neo-psych MDA acolytes; skate punks who shit in bathtubs at parties; Mod vigilantes who tormented the homeless with pellet guns; college kids who thought college kids were lame; Industrial Artistes; some random guy with a moustache; and eccentrics who insisted that they couldn’t be pigeonholed: all coalesced around the U-Men (read more at Sub Pop).