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Artist: Yuck
Album: Yuck
Label: Fat Possum
Playtime: 49:26 min
Genre: Indie
URL:
Rip date: 2011-02-23
Street date: 2011-02-15
Size: 65.46 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 174 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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Over this past year, Yuck have emerged as one of the best and brightest new
bands, not to mention one of the most mercurial and unpredictable. Far from
following any set patterns, they have instead forged their own path and
cultivated a fervently devoted fanbase in the process, from their gorgeously
winsome debut single 'Georgia', released on Transparent (and recently on Fat
Possum in the US), to the 4 track, piano-led Yu(c)k EP 'Weakend', on Mirror
Universe Tapes, to finally signing with Fat Possum/ Pharmacy Recording Co and
releasing their sprawling, epic single 'Rubber' in November.
That deliciously maverick streak shows up once again on this, their hotly
anticipated debut album. Self-produced, it finally unveils the full breadth
and scope of Yuck, showcasing a band capable of sprinting off in pretty much
any direction you can think of, so diverse and fully realized is its vision.
It also shows that their previous releases were merely skimming the tip of
the iceberg in terms of what the quartet of Daniel Blumberg, Max Bloom,
Mariko Doi and Jonny Rogoff are capable of. This is a confident, wildly
ambitious record, but also one which brims over with a ragged warmth and
tenderness, tipping its hat at alt music heroes past such as East River Pipe,
Dinosaur Jr and Sparklehorse while at the same time retaining a unique
identity entirely its own. From the rousing call to arms of the opener 'Get
Away', to the hypnotic sturm und drang of 'Rubber', and the grungy serotonin
rush of 'Operation', it is clear that this is a band in full control of their
powers when it comes to anthemic and offbeat guitar rock. But they also
reveal an achingly fragile side too, as with the gorgeous, heartsick croon on
'Suck', or on 'Sunday', where Blumberg asks, 'Did you take the rhythm from
me? Yesterday I had it all' over chiming, jangling guitars. Additionally,
after an autumn tour which took in raucously received performances at this
year's In the City and a sold-out London show at the Lexington, Yuck will be
taking to the road for another headline tour of the UK, before heading off to
the US for a spate of live dates, not to mention their debut shows at SXSW in
March.
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01. Get Away ( 3:35)
02. The Wall ( 3:56)
03. Shook Down ( 3:26)
04. Holing Out ( 4:10)
05. Suicide Policeman ( 3:15)
06. Georgia ( 3:36)
07. Suck ( 4:19)
08. Stutter ( 3:41)
09. Operation ( 3:47)
10. Sunday ( 4:22)
11. Rose Gives A Lilly ( 4:05)
12. Rubber ( 7:14)
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