(image via wired.com)

If you haven’t heard, Buke & Gase are a band of two scruffy young instrument builders who happen to rock instruments of the same respective names. Also they are a boy and a girl with the same first name. Confused yet? Ok let’s get this straight. The Buke is a baritone ukulele played by Arone Dyer, who also sings, and the Gase is a guitar/bass hybrid (formerly called the Gass, but that didn’t read well enough with the general public) constructed and played through (also) home-made amps by Aron Sanchez. The duo also plays their own percussion live with their feet. These two first impressed me when they were part of a math-rock band called Hominid, and they’ve taken the complex contra-rhythmic style to the next level with the warm, fuzzy, acoustic stylings of Buke & Gase. Their new digital-only EP Function Falls drops today on Brassland Records. Stream it over at wired.com or buy it on bandcamp.