Uncle Violet has been steadily expanding a local fan base in support of Neurotica, which is their first nationally released CD on Guelph's DROG label. It is a guitar rock album that attracts fans of Phish and the Grateful Dead. Neurotica is reflective of Uncle Violet's live sound, which combines a loose, improvisational feel with unusual grooves and dark, thorny lyrics. The two drummers forge dense polyrhythmic textures under Richard Keelan's melodic bass and the two lead guitars, which sometimes trade off and sometimes clash noisily.

Neurotica was recorded over 10 months at Glen Marshall's Catherine North studio in Hamilton and is distributed nationally by Outside Music. "Crushed Velvet", the second track on the disc, has been garnering top ten airplay at a number of campus radio stations, and the band was awarded a VIDEOfact grant for the "Hollow Sleep" (track 5) video.

Here's what some critics have to say about Uncle Violet's album Neurotica:

VIEW magazine: "innovative and often haunting...definitely satisfies...memorable"

EYE magazine: "supremely talented...the single best recording I've heard come out of
my neck of the woods in a lonnng time"

EXCLAIM magazine: "quite good...strong songwriting...expressive"