posted by Jessica on July 1, 2011
PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL: Get Ready with Yuck
Remember the 1990s? So do many artists who have lately been referencing the decade, including London-based Yuck. I can’t say that I was big into the underground indie rock scene in elementary school, but luckily Yuck riffs on its best qualities and ushers them into the present.
While Yuck’s self-titled debut was released this spring, two of the quartet’s 20 year-old members are already indie veterans having previously played with Cajun Dance Party. Yuck’s first offering is a raw and expressive balance. Rhythmic rock-out tracks like “The Wall” feature vocals that distort and guitar solos that turn screechy as if indeed tearing through a wall, while ballads like “Suicide Policeman” offer earnest lingering melodies. A nostalgic 90′s influence can be heard in the buildup of the addictive riff and almost indiscernible fuzzy vocal on “Operation” that opens into a roaring chorus: “I wanna be well designed.” Yuck allows the listener to relive the less manufactured elements of indie rock past while designing well its future.
Yuck – The Wall (Downloaded 235 times)
Yuck – Suicide Policeman (Downloaded 304 times)
Yuck – Operation (Downloaded 277 times)
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» Meaningless labels: Fuzzy • Male vocal • Melodic • Rhythmic • Rock-Out • Vintage
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July 5th, 2011 at 4:49 am
Write more, thats all I have to say. Literally, it seems as though you relied on the video to make your point. You definitely know what youre talking about, why waste your intelligence on just posting videos to your blog when you could be giving us something enlightening to read?
September 21st, 2011 at 9:04 am
We do have an RSS feed, look on the right hand side of the main page, about half-way down, under “Feeds,”, directly below “Rate These Posts.”