Bad Uncle by Bad Uncle

Bad Uncle’s self titled debut album is a grimy window into the band’s back alley beginnings as a two piece. With Santosh Lalonde on lead vocals, accordion and foot bass and D’Arcy Nichol providing rhythms on trash cans and bread boxes, Bad Uncle burst on to the Montreal music scene with sounds and smells like no other. The addition of Hugo Joyal on guitars and banjo filled out the sound of these songs, many of which remain crowd favourites… somehow.

Bad Uncle is a four-piece, accordion driven, in-your-face rock n roll band that combines growling Waits-esque vocals, genre-bending guitar wizardry and driving upright slap bass and trash can drums.

With a nod to 1950’s horror camp, Bad Uncle combines a myriad of genres from gypsy-folk to rock to disco while telling stories of the absurd, the macabre and sometimes even with some self reflection.

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