UT Ut & Confidential

The band is reissuing its remastered catalogue on Out Records through Forte
Distribution in 2017 and 2018. The UT reissue campaign starts with the Ut EP and
the Confidential EP, remastered by Dominique Brethes at Wolf Studios and
repackaged as a double 12" (both cut at 45rpm for maximum sound fidelity) and a
CD version. Ut is a radical rock group founded by Nina Canal, Jacqui Ham and
Sally Young in NYC in Dec 1978. Originating in the downtown No Wave scene
and inheritors of the collision between rock, free jazz and the avant-garde, Ut
exploded the rigidity of conventional rock, constructing songs through collective
improvisation, swapping instruments and rotating the role of singer/director.
Migrating to London in 1981, Ut played with bands like The Fall and The Birthday
Party and released music on their own label, Out Records. Ut became a favorite of
BBC's John Peel and recorded sessions for his show. Joining forces in 1987 with
the label Blast First, they released the critically acclaimed In Gut's House in 1988
and made the NME ¶op 50 Albums' that year. As The Washington Post exclaimed,
"With In Gut's House, Ut has scraped and droned one of the finest underground
rock albums of the year... The tightly interwoven, firmly focused sound... is rich,
spooky, urgent and quite unexpectedly beautiful." The album Griller followed in
1989, engineered by label mate Steve Albini, who shared Ut's raw aesthetic and
captured the band's intensity. Ut disbanded in 1990 and began performing again in
2010. They have since toured the US, UK, Ireland and Europe.