Yves Tumor

this is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-9QCsH3OQM

heaven to a tortured mind out 4/3

^^^ this is fucking great btw

very nice!

totally not what i was expecting, but this is very great.

new album bangs

yay! hoping it arrives in the mail at some point

it's not bad but i feel a little underwhelmed compared to the last one

I need to give this another go, ideally on headphones. It was enjoyable enough but it felt reverent and pastichey and the vocals weren't strong enough to make it really compelling.

yeah that's about i feel. there's still some decent stuff on there but it trails off towards the end and it's strange that he's gone from something that felt much more singular to this sort of pastichey approach.

on stage with all the hair and theatrics I was more into this, the vocals start to wear more on the record but the songwriting is there imo

im not sure i really get this stuff... its like angsty alt rock?

Re-discovered Safe In The Hands Of Love again this week. Forgotten how great and interesting it was. Just ordered the 2020 record and am now a bit dismayed to see here the lack of love for it. Oh well. I'll make my own mind up. Did anyone find some appreciation for the new one - is it that different?

it’s grown to be one of my favorite records of the year

yay! hoping it arrives in the mail at some point

update: it arrived! probably my favorite album this year, though I wouldn't necessarily say I like it more than the last one.

loved the new record, i think these colder months treat it better too

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.