Review

Houston, Texas-based jack of all trades Joe Corrales Jnr – aka Yppah – comes up trumps with his second album, an astonishingly assured, swirling maelstrom of breakbeats, shoegazey guitars and otherworldly psychedelic atmospherics. Highlights are plentiful, from the trippy, blissful single ‘Gumball Machine Weekend’ to the title track’s narcotic hip-hop (complete with an organ part that recalls the finer moments of The Doors), to the exuberant ‘Bobbie Joe Wilson’. Closer ‘Southern Sky Tells’ builds up to a furious climax of guitars and drums that give way to a gorgeous, soothing coda, the calm after the storm. We’ll have some of what he’s smoking, please. Neill Dougan

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DOWNLOAD: ‘GUMBALL MACHINE WEEKEND’, ‘THEY KNOW WHAT GHOST KNOW’, ‘BOBBIE JOE WILSON’, ‘SOUTHERN SKY TELLS’.
FOR FANS OF: DJ SHADOW, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, CARIBOU.

Posted on: August 3, 2009