a r t i s t : Yppah
t i t l e : They Know What Ghost Know
d a t e : 2009
l a b e l : Ninja Tune
c a t : ZENCD147
s o u r c e : CDDA
g e n r e : Electronic
r l s. d a t e : Apr/2009
t r a c k s : 12
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 63,1 MB
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Joe Corrales, Jr. aka Yppah (pronounced ?Yippah?) is back. The
young Mexican-American from Texas debuted on Ninja Tune in
2006 with his album, ?You Are Beautiful At all Times,? and now
releases his sophomore effort, ?They Know What Ghost Know.?
Fashioning a rockier sound than last time out, the album draws
on a cultural heritage that took in My Bloody Valentine
alongside hip hop and which is heavily influenced by various
forms of electronic music, psychedelic soul and rock.
Opening track ?Son Saves The Rest? is wall-of-noise guitar
pummeller. ?Gumball Machine Weekend? sounds like
southern-fried Go! Team with more soul. ?Playing With
Fireworks? somehow reminds you of the way you felt stuck
between childhood and the adult world, not a million miles
from instrumental tracks from the Phantom Band. ?Shutter
Speed? is nostalgia psyched into a memorable tune. Title track
?They Know What Ghost Know? is West Coast rock reimagined as
trance-rite, a spooky, echo-heavy drum-roll-filled set of
repetitions and overlaps that builds into a tune which DJ
Shadow in his heyday might have dreamed of making. ?Sun Flower
Sun Kissed? takes the doomy grey skies of MBV and gives them a
Texan make-over. ?Bobbie Joe Wilson? channels the Dust
Brothers and proves Yppah hasn?t lost his love of hip hop.
Corrales build moods through a combination of melody, rhythm
and sonics and if those moods are mainly melancholy, they?re
also ecstatic.
After a series of shows last year from SXSW to Japan, there?s
a real feeling that Joe Corrales is ready to step up into the
big league. The album has that feel to it ? that it has been
made under huge skies, that it?s possible to make music which
is epic and intimate all at once. It?s beguiling and beautiful
and makes you a little giddy, too. Find out what Ghost know.
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01-Son Saves The Rest [04:01]
02-Gumball Machine Weekend [04:00]
03-Playing With Fireworks [04:13]
04-Shutter Speed [03:54]
05-The Moon Scene 7 [04:40]
06-They Know What Ghost Know [04:50]
07-City Glow [04:07]
08-Sun Flower Sun Kissed [03:52]
09-The Tingling [03:44]
10-Bobbie Joe Wilson [03:32]
11-A Parking Lot Carnival [04:10]
12-Southern Sky Tells [04:21]
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49:24 min