Yumi Yumi - Alchemy Does anthemic shout-along drum machine electro-crash float your boat?
Then allow Yumi Yumi, a Japanese girl-rock duo who've moved to London
to grace our toilet venues with their hollering exuberance, to vibrate
your eardrums so hard your teeth chatter. A little reminiscent of Bis
without the politics, Yumi Yumi combine noise and tunes to loud and
expansive effect. They play music in bright colours and capital letters,
power chords and guitar posing twinned with fizzing and popping noise
effects to create an extremely full-throttle sound. Their debut album
Alchemy is one of those It's also very good fun. Yumi Yumi clearly like things which make strange
noises, and use such toys to very good effect. There are more bleeps
and beeps to be heard on this album than in your average video game
arcade, and as well as the mechanical noises Yumi Yumi have a good line
in noise-vox.
Blasting, punky and playful, Yumi Yumi have infused Alchemy
with that flippant throw-away strength which implies a band with total
confidence in the sound they're making. That sense of self-confidence
gives the whole thing drive and momentum and makes for a very seductive
sense of Holl(i)y
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