Reviews:
Reason To Believe #10 -
Winter 2003/04:
From the haunting, intense, cello based intro, Uro slowly build
up into releasing their rage and anger at the man-made horror
that has seen this world sucked dry and burned to cinders. Fierce
female/male vocals that bites inside of you - You can feel the
expression, emotion and angst in themselves - that together
is SO intense. The music has a towering ire, rage and fury about
it but also lifts you up and then down with its sorrow and yet
beauty of what we/us are doing to this world and how we libe
our lives and act as superior species to those that we inhabit
the rest of this world with! Don't dare to stop dreaming. You
were born screaming, you die in silence. When (inbetween) did
the shouting stop? All the Danish lyrics are presented in a
booklet that has English translations and artwork for each page.
The drawings, and especially the sleeve are dark, black and
express the artists feelings and emotions intensely. Beautiful,
haunting, empowering. I dare you not to feel different after
hearing this record. (SHY)
Warprayer newsletter # 107 - 25/11 - 2003:
URO's "Revolutions romantik" 7" from last year
was really good, but this LP is even better cuz after listening
to the first few seconds, I knew this album is the shit! These
8 more or less slow songs are in the best peacepunk/anarchocore
tradition, they include amazing, dual female/male trade off
vocals and next to this, the addition of a violin or a cello
(I'm not sure…) gives their sound a totally dark, morbid
touch! This longplayer, that comes with an eye-catching 12paged
booklet, rules from A to Z!!
Maximum Rock N Roll #247 - December 2003:
Hailing from København (or Copenhagen as it's also known)
Uro plays some pretty right on rhythmic anarcho punk. Blending
moments of later period of ANTI PRODUCT, Ungovernable Force-era
CONFLICT, CRESS and NAUSEA, these Danish punks unleash a vicious
and driving yet moderately melancholy dual-vocaled assault against
the infamous system. Unlike so many others who try this, this
still sounds totally refreshing and powerfull, not at all contrived-perhaps
it's the interesting use of alternative instrumentation (cello,
piano ect.) which helps to keep it from sounding flat or stagnant.
Or maybe it's the knowing that these Danish punks live the life
they sing. Totalltý amazing record here. (MT)
www.bustedheads.com
Epic crust punk from Danish riot punx. Female/male dual vocals,
dark riffs and a cello create a funeral march for the capitalist
system. Comes w/booklet w/English translations and artwork etc.
Agitate newsletter Issue #3:
I've been looing forward to hearing this full length album from
Uro since hearing the "Revolutions romantic" EP and
this is no disappointment. This continues the same style of
dark and intense anarcho crust punk with dual female/male vocals
fused together with some great cello based harmonies. Includes
a well presented lyric booklet with both Danish and English
translation with equally dark artwork and at times almost poetic
lyrics about both the destruction of the planet and the end
of civilization etc to the struggle for freedom and change and
accomplishing our dreams. This is a really impressing record.
I fucking love this.
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