Despite being hailed as one of the best bands to come out of the 1970’s Canadian underground rock scene, Simply Saucer never put out an album proper. Their total recorded studio output is about an EP’s worth of material. The studio tracks were originally recorded in July of 1974 by not-yet-famous producer Daneil Lanois (Bob Dylan, U2, Neil Young) . In additon to this, there were numerous live performances recorded over the band’s short life. In 1989 Mole Sound/Cargo Records complied all the studio tracks with a handful of live ones, and released an album entitled Cyborg Revisited. Since that time, the LP has taken on a kind of cult status fueled by being long out of print, with copies going for big bucks. Now, the Italian label Get Back Records has reissued the album as a 180 gram LP. The songs take their musical cues from the likes of proto-punk heavy weights The Stooges and Velvet Underground , with psych and Krautrock influences via Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd and Germany’s Can. On the live track “Illegial Bodies”, the song quickly falls into a deep, frenzied, low-end groove that sounds more like throbs of primitive stomping, as the guitar solo squeals and squalls around like an electric snake.
