With music not quite as strange as their name, but close, UUVVWWZ (pronounced "double U, double V, double double U, Zee") take their weirdo cues from indie bands like Deerhoof, Micachu, and Kap Bambino with unconventional song structures, angular guitar riffage, rigid start-stop rhythms, and frantic yelping. The four-piece (three men, one woman) formed in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 2007, and built a reputation for its surreal sound and raucous live performances that quickly seeped beyond its hometown. By the time they reached that hippest of midwest indies, Saddle Creek, the band had become a minor phenomenon, critically feted by the Pitchfork world.