ARTIST: Yppah
TITLE: You Are Beautiful At All Times
LABEL: Ninja Tune
GENRE: Electronic
BITRATE: 177kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 33min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-11-20
RIP DATE: 2006-10-06
Track List
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01. Ending With You 3:09
02. I'll Hit The Breaks 3:06
03. Again With The Subtitles 2:47
04. The Subtitles That Count 2:22
05. What's The Matter? 2:23
06. In Two, The Weakly 3:26
07. Almost In That Category 3:48
08. Good Like That 2:35
09. Cannot See Straight 3:29
10. In My Drink 2:30
11. Longtime 3:27
Release Notes:
Unlikely places can sometimes breed unlikely music. Joe Corrales is
from Texas, a place synonymous with country and western, slide guitar,
classic rock and good ol' boys. Yet his debut as Yppah (pronounced
"Yippah") draws on a cultural heritage that took in My Bloody
Valentine alongside hip hop and has resulted in a unique sensibility.
Corrales early teen years were spent playing guitar and bass in rock
bands, his later ones as a scratch DJ who mixed hip hop and house in
club sets, produced weird mashups (Outkast v Ted Nugent anybody?) and
was part of a turnttablist group called The Truth. However, when he
sat down to write "You Are Beautiful At All Times" his aim was to
combine all these influences and it's an aim he has achieved with some
aplomb. Mixing in guitars shoved through massive delays, keyboards and
loops sampled from real drums, Corrales has created intricate,
multi-layered soundscapes of real beauty, which also have the catchy,
insistent hooks of the music of his childhood. Corrales' music has a
certain air of melancholy to it and perhaps the wide open spaces of
Texas have influenced the airiness of his tunes, the feeling that you
are looking down onto tiny people from high in the sky. Certainly, he
manages to make his modesty into something epic.