Univaque are a British band based in Sweden that makes happy synthpop with an almost sixties touch to the vocals, but with strong early Depeche Mode influences musicwise. They have recently released their debut album "Lost in a Maze" on SubSpace Communications, produced by two thirds of Elegant Machinery. The name Univaque has a nice futuristic sound to it as well as an interesting origin, Johan Malmgren who read in an Elvis book about an America...
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Univaque are a British band based in Sweden that makes happy synthpop with an almost sixties touch to the vocals, but with strong early Depeche Mode influences musicwise. They have recently released their debut album "Lost in a Maze" on SubSpace Communications, produced by two thirds of Elegant Machinery. The name Univaque has a nice futuristic sound to it as well as an interesting origin, Johan Malmgren who read in an Elvis book about an American DJ who called himself that in the fifties. He played lots of different styles of music, and it started what he called the “univaque” style. The band has strong retro influences from "Speak and Spell" kick-drums and Yazoo-esque synth leads, the way it was in the early eighties electropop.
Mark Welbourn and Steve Ellam had known each other for a long time when they decided that they would start making music together. Said and done, they started out and shortly after they found Chris Cross who helped out to sort of started to work out stuff on...
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