Format: CD Album
Label: Ninja Tune
Released: May 18
No, that isn't a spelling mistake. Yppah is a Texan-based Mexican-American producer and musician Joe Corrales Jr, who makes complx but ultra-laid back lounge funk, or even math-funk to borrow the current parlance.
Rockier than his previous Ninja material, 'They Know...' is steeped in live playing - there's everything from live drums and flutes to blazing shoegaze guitar here - the likes of 'The Moon Scene 7' and the LP's title track come over like luxurious jams, the former evoking My Bloody Valentine remixed by DJ Shadow, the latter like the missing link between Spitualized and The Doors, quite possibly with Jimi Hendrix's Experience providing the rhythm section.
There are times, like the first half of 'City Glow', when you feel like you're stuck in a muddy Glastonbury field circa 1995 watching the end of a Ozric Tentacles set. Not much fun, admittedly. This reviewer certainly prefers the sharper, more focussed hip-hop beats that emerge more in the LP's second half.
So although this isn't a uniformly successful album, that doesn't mean there aren't some moments of inspired experimental glory here either.
3/5
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2 comments:
how did you get this album already?
C'mon, this album's fantastic.
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