The Vulcan Dub Squad

The Vulcan Dub Squad

“Music for the connoisseur, not the consumer”

When we first approached Ranbir about writing up a biography for The Vulcan Dub Squad, he casually remarked, “Just make it up, but make it good…better than the real thing.”

We didn’t/couldn’t, and instead got Ranbir intoxicated (which wasn’t hard considering his penchant for a scotch and soda). From the resulting purple prose and run-on sentences that have long become a famous component of their live shows/theatre, we’ve compiled what we figure to be the most relevant and useful information on this seminal five-piece band from Southern Ontario. Let’s go.

The Vulcan Dub Squad…

-comprise of Ranbir Gundu (vocals, guitar), Graham Wilson (guitar), Aaron Foster (guitar), Jameson Banks (bass guitar) and David Croft (drums). Over the past decade they’ve run the sonic gamut from the ambient instrumental lullabies of their earlier records, their avant-garde/shoegaze and art-rock releases circa. 2000, to finally arrive on their current sound: a Pastiche Pop™ fusing the earlier elements while drawing on garage/psych and folk strains as well, to blend and blur them all into something genuinely new.

-currently release their sixth LP The New Designers, an album inspired by Expo ’67 with music that “sounds like architecture.” The LP comes on like a meld of LOVE, The Smiths and The Kinks, The Wedding Present and Thor’s Hammer (60s legends from Iceland), while at the same time offering transitional coherence reminiscent of 50/60’s Bollywood scores.

-visited Habitat’67 during the recording of this LP for documentary footage and on-site audio recordings for use on the record. [It was fun]

-have garnered an enviable cult status in Canada’s indie-rock underground having released six albums since their inception in 1997, the last four of which have had strong nationalistic themes. [Marathon of Hope (2002), This Nation’s Saving Face (2003), Just Watch Us (2005) and The New Designers (2007)]

-are conceptually taken with notions of creating legend and legacy for Canadian generations to come and try to reflect this in their work, the hope being that should future lovers of music happen upon their work they will have found a unique and intriguing snapshot of Canadian life in these, and those excavated, times. [Poncy, eh?]

“We are The Stone Roses of our time, but Big Brother has no idea/care what’s happenin’, so I guess we’re really just The Pastels.” – Ranbir Gundu

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