De-evolution is complete with 'Devo 2.0'

NEW YORK, March 12 (UPI) -- If you were a 1970s fan of Devo, "you're not going to like" the new album, "Devo 2.0," bandmember Gerry Casale warns.

"If you're not upset by it, we haven't done our jobs," he told Sunday's New York Daily News.

Clue No. 1 that "Devo 2.0" is not not your father's Devo is the album was produced by Disney Sound Records and clue No. 2 is that all the songs are sung by 10- to 14-year-olds.

Songs like "Whip It" and "Peekaboo!" have been cleaned and de-meaned with all the innuendos eradicated, Casale said.

"If you think about it, this is very Devo in its own way," the subversive singer said.

Devo chose the young performers, making sure they didn't "have same interests as their peer group. They have real positions. And they get good grades."