Yves Tumor

I need to revisit the newest one, I remember being a little letdown. It was okay, but I missed the wild, unexpected detours that popped up on Safe in the Hands of Love.

I gave the new one a close listen last night and I'm still not seeing this as any sort of improvement over Safe in the Hands of Love and I'm surprised to see it landing high on a number of lists. I don't dislike it, by any means, but it lacks SitHoL's range and left-turn detours. It focuses in on and amplifies the alt-rock threads from that album, but I don't feel like it really improves them at all. I don't know, I just miss the more... playful approach he used to have.

Heaven's poll appearance the other day got me thinking about it again, and I guess why I've found some of the reactions confusing is because it's especially in the context of the last album that I love it so much. The thread it follows out of its predecessor is for me not so much musical as thematic, in that it seems to achieve the sort of insulation that Safe in the Hands of Love longed for in its title and most vulnerable moments. “Can I take you home?” keeps echoing, with feedback reply now album-wide. There's a very audience-of-one feeling, heightened by all the terms of endearment, that puts the music at odds with whatever genre it might be pulling from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQpaWvPFx8A

moving even further towards a more straight-forward rock frontman thing, it's ok but i'm not really sold on this as a direction for them idk it doesn't have what made safe in the hands of love so great

i'm open to the idea of really getting into a star power version of their work but so far for how radical their ambient stuff + 'safe in the hands of love' is, how good it is, this stuff feels kind of tepid by comparison...feel like the emotions suddenly got cloudy even as it got ostensibly more accessible

i like the idea of pop yves tumor but so far it feels more like downtempo yves tumor

yeah it's not bad or anything it's just like... they surely should be able to do so much better?

it feels like they're developing a lot of other underdeveloped parts of 'playing the part' and maybe dont have total command yet. hopefully will get to that zone though

Not feeling as blown away with this EP as I was with Heaven to a Tortured Mind, which ended up being my favourite album of last year. Hopefully it'll grow on me, but I don't really see it happening for a little while.

sewerslvt version of 'jackie' is cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dUfdaHbhfo

fantastic new tune off the forthcoming album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxk-QeZ6Rus
Yves Tumor - Echolalia

https://yves-tumor.bandcamp.com/album/praise-a-lord-who-chews-but-which-does-not-consume-or-simply-hot-between-worlds?from=fannewrel
album will be on Warp and is called - *deep breath* - Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)

oops, slightly botched post, but yeah... got good hopes for this

Yeah I like this a fair bit. Can't lie I've been a little bit disappointed with each successive release since Hands of Love was my fav album of 2018. But I'm hoping for great things.

https://mixmag.net/read/yves-tumor-new-album-world-tour-single-echolalia-praise-lord-warp-news?fbclid=IwAR2LQrXeD1YoFmcBIPQs1t8TsHcJ1S1YC3hFmq1zcZE6O-GuigF_PntMARo

It will be produced by Noah Goldstein, who has worked with the likes of Frank Ocean, Rosalía, Drake and Rihanna, and mixed by GRAMMY award-winning Brit Alan Moulder — who has worked on albums for the likes of Moby, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Gary Numan, and a number of iconic rock bands.

(A very random pick-n-mix of Moulder artists there)

Very much liking the new one so far.

Same. imo an improvement on The Asymptotical World. My favourites so far are The first two songs, In Spite of War and Purified by the Fire.

I do sort of miss the, ahem, more open-ended (trying not to say noisy/formless) material they used to run far with. SITHOL is still probably my favourite album of the last five years and it still feels like the best showcase for all of their strengths, but I've really enjoyed their popstar poses ever since. They do it really good and the music often matches.

Yeah the newest one is incredibly good. This is kind of what I wished Heaven to a Tortured Mind would have been.