Answers

• Artist: Ui
• Rating:
• Release Date: June 24, 2003
• Genre: Rock

Review

Ui's third full-length appeared seven years after the group's debut LP, Lifelike, a precise, jam-heavy record that caught the emerging post-rock boom on its way up and found the band playing Rush to Tortoise's Yes. Answers isn't appreciably different from the rest of Ui's work, rich with bass-guitar melodicism and a percussive approach to music-making that comes from every instrument in the mix. The Ui sound is more powerful here, though, and it's all down to their recruitment of a pair of downtown N.Y.C. heads: new member -- and second bassist -- Erik Sanko (of Skeleton Key, Lounge Lizards, Yoko Ono) plus producer Bryce Goggin (Swans, Elliott Sharp, Band of Susans). Answers has a heavy downtown spirit, with standard instruments played in a unique fashion, and an aggressive interplay that's nearly antagonistic. (Listeners thinking of Liquid Liquid or Talking Heads are well on their way.) Second from the end comes the highlight, "John Fitch Way," nearly seven minutes of broadly riffing, constantly changing, post-rocking genius. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Back Up	Sasha Frere-Jones	Ui	(2:26)
Get Hot, You Bum!	Sasha Frere-Jones	Ui	(2:33)
Mrs. Lady Lady	Sasha Frere-Jones	Ui	(2:50)
Sunny Nights	Sasha Frere-Jones	Ui	(3:56)
Answers	Sasha Frere-Jones	Ui	(5:07)
The Headache Boat	Sasha Frere-Jones	Ui	(2:33)
Boxer-Painter	Sasha Frere-Jones	Ui	(1:53)
Banjo	Sasha Frere-Jones	Ui	(4:59)
Sleep Hold	Sasha Frere-Jones	Ui	(3:54)
Elettrodomestici	Sasha Frere-Jones	Ui	(3:13)
Please Release Me	Sasha Frere-Jones	Ui	(3:43)
John Fitch Way	Sasha Frere-Jones	Ui	(6:34)
Lullaby		Ui	(1:11)

Credits

Sasha Frere-Jones (?), Tobias Frere-Jones (Typography), Clem Waldmann (?), Bryce Goggin (Mixing), Greg Frey (Engineer), Bryce Goggin (Engineer), Wilbo Wright (?), Richard McGuire (Artwork), John Loder (Mastering), Todd Vos (Assistant Engineer), Erik Sanko (?), Bryce Goggin (Producer), Richard McGuire (Design)