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Yuck – All The Old Is All The New

La verdad  es que Yuck me llamo la atencion la primera vez por su arte de tapa, esd cierto que no se debe juzgar a un disco por su tapa, pero es que las portadas de los trabajos de Yuck son tan endemoniadamente  atractivas…

La cosa es que despues de echar un vistazo a la producion de la banda hasta  llegar a su debut autotitulado, estoy seguro de que inmediatemente se convenceran de  que estan frente a uno de los mejores discos debut indies lanzados este año.

YUck esta formado por  Daniel Blumberg como cantante y guitarrista  ; Max Bloom  como guitarrista ; Jonny Rogoff  el peludo baterista y Mariko Doi como bajista. 

Ya en 2008 Daniel Blumberg junto a Max Bloom habian sacado un album que si bien no es el mismo estilo de Yuck suena con un indie pop bastante solido ,  la banda se llamaba  Cajun Dance Party, y tambien lo tienen por aqui.
Describir el sinido de Yuck no me resulta tan facil, ellos tocan duro. Tocan suave . Tocan fuerte . Tocan con el talento de cuatro jovenes apasionados por un poderoso espritu Indie Rock Lo Fi de los 90´s sacando de la manga elementos que hacen que suene fresco y actual .
Porque titulo esto como All The Old Is Old The New ?, bien, este es el titulo que puso Sean Moeller a la revision de la presentacion de Yuck en Daytrotter Studios y quizas son las palabras que mejor lo definen, por esa razon es que inserto aqui una de las mejores criticas sobre la banda, impecable, como nos tiene acostumbrados Sean Moeller, aqui va, espero que disfruten todo esto…


Remember when Pepsi and Coke cans still had a classic design? It wasn’t all that long ago. There was a time when folks in the marketing departments of certain brands didn’t spend the greatest chunk of their time trying to make things appear different just for the sake of shaking up the familiarity, as if trying to trick consumers into thinking that something they’ve always enjoyed was now sexier and needed more of their attention, or in coaxing those who never liked the product to suddenly think it was sexier and hotter and therefore more needed or sought after by nearly everyone. It happened with our breakfast cereal, our soft drinks, our beers, our detergents, everything we purchase and now we’re hit with all of the “new look, same great taste/recipe/formula/secret sauce” things on a continuous basis, with everyone wanting to be edgier in their attempts to be greedier and more savvy with their boundless research and focus groups. Everyone’s looking for new ways to be the same old, but feeling the need to dress it up and fool us into believing that there’s something different happening here, just to satisfy our need for newness by way of our frivolous attentions. English band Yuck, one in a long and getting longer every day line of new signees to Oxford, Mississippi’s Fat Possum Records, is a group that would fall into the category of the classic can, of the throwback in the terms of, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” music. Lead singer Daniel Blumberg, at times, reminds me of an emotional and dramatic songs of the horrible times of young, confused boys that Placebo used to write. He also has traces of Tim Wheeler, from another fellow English band, Ash, another of those mostly inconspicuous bands from the 90s, but it doesn’t stop there. Yuck is a genius color black of 1990s indie rock and roll, a combination of nearly everything good about the decade, all thrown into the can and shaken together. It is everything you can remember or have forgotten from that not-so-far-gone era of music – a decade that, to this point, doesn’t get eulogized all that kindly, but should. It was a bastion of killer aloofness and a DIY ethos that was smarter and better connected than that of the 1980s and prior. It was the first decade when it had suddenly become much easier to get a record out into people’s hands. Sure, it wasn’t like it is now, where a computer allows you to be a part of the grand party, but there was a bounty of musical output and we were hearing the abundance. Some of it was great, a lot of it was good, while some of it was shite, but all the same, it was there and it was being sifted through. Yuck, with its panoramic and sprawlingly hazy guitars, dynamic and thoughtful, but easy-going arrangements, punky refrains and a general feeling of unable to be uncategorized everything music, exemplifies an age when all can be new and all can be old again, when everything is available at the ends of fingertips. 


SEAN MOELLER

Yuck / Herzog  – Georgia / Paul Blart And The Death Of Art

Released 15 Mar 2010

Label:Transparent

Format:Vinyl, 7″, Single, Limited Edition 

Country:UK

Artwork By – John Thomas, Yuck

Limited to 300 copies.

Tracklist

A Yuck –Georgia

Written-By – Blumberg, Bloom

B Herzog  –  Paul Blart And The Death Of Art

Guitar, Vocals – Nick Tolar

Bass – Gary Thobaben

Drums – Juan Granda

Yu(c)k – Weakend

Released 19 Jul 2010

Label:Mirror Universe Tapes

Format:Cassette, EP, Limited Edition, C22 

Country:US

Limited to 100 copies. 

Yu(c)k is the piano-based side project of Yuck

Tracklist

A1 Daughter

A2 Weakend

B1 Walk

B2 Automatic

Yuck – Rubber

Released 26 Oct 2010

Label:The Pharmacy Recording Company, Fat Possum Records

Format:Vinyl, 12″, Single, 45 RPM 

Country:UK

Artwork By – Daniel Blumberg

Mixed By, Producer – Yuck

Recorded in Max’s Bedroom in June 2010.

Tracklist

A Rubber

B1 The Base Of A Dream Is Empty

B2 Dark Magnet

Yuck – Georgia

Released 23 Nov 2010

Label:Fat Possum Records

Format:Vinyl, 7″, Single 

Country:US

Artwork By – Daniel Blumberg*

Producer, Mixed By – Yuck

Written-By – Daniel Blumberg, Max Bloom

Notes

Recorded in Max’s bedroom

Tracklist

A Georgia

B The Base Of A Dream Is Empty

Yu(c)k / Porcelain Raft – Despite Everything / The Wall

Released 21 Oct 2010

Label:Transparent 

Format:Vinyl, 7″, Limited Edition 

Country:UK

Titles as reported on cover are inverted: first Porcelain Raft, then Yu(c)k. 

Complete titles on cover are: Porcelain Raft sings “The Wall” by Yuck; Yu(c)k sings “Despite Everything” by Porcelain Raft. 

Limited to 300 copies.

Tracklist

A Yu(c)k –Despite Everything

Written-By – Porcelain Raft

B Porcelain Raft –The Wall

Written-By – Yuck

Artwork By [Collage] – Maxi Schramm*

Artwork By [Drawing] – Daniel Blomberg*

Yuck – Holing Out

Released 16 Nov 2011

Label:Fat Possum Records, The Pharmacy Recording Company

Format:Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Limited Edition 

Country:UK & US

Artwork By – Daniel*

Mixed By – Max*

Producer – Yuck

Recorded By [Drums] – Amir Amor

Written-By – Daniel Blumberg, Max Bloom

Tracklist

A Holing Out

B Coconut Bible

Yuck – Yuck Bonus Version

Released 15 Feb 2011

Label:Fat Possum Records, The Pharmacy Recording Company

Format:CD, Album, Digipak 

Country:US

Artwork By – Daniel*

Bass – Mariko Doi

Drums – Jonny Rogoff

Guitar – Daniel Blumberg, Max Bloom

Mastered By – Nilesh Patel

Mixed By – Matt Pence, Max Bloom

Photography – Jon Bergman

Producer – Yuck

Producer [Drums] – Amir Amor

Recorded By [Drums] – Marc Waterman (tracks: 8)

Vocals – Daniel Blumberg, Ilana Blumberg, Max Bloom (tracks: 9)

Written-By – Daniel Blumberg (tracks: 1-8, 10, 12), Max Bloom

Mixed at The Wonderful Gunfactory Studios. 

Tracks 3 & 10 mixed in Texas. 

Guitars recorded in Max’s bedroom & vocals in Daniel’s flat 

Drums produced at Major Tom’s (“shock down” recorded there too). Drums on track 8 were recorded at Fortress Studios

Tracklist

1 Get Away3:36

2 The Wall3:57

3 Shook Down3:27

4 Holing Out4:11

5 Suicide Policeman3:15

6 Georgia3:36

7 Suck4:19

8 Stutter3:42

9 Operation3:47

10 Sunday4:23

11 Rose Giver A Lilly4:06

12 Rubber7:14

13 Dark Magnet (Bonus Track)
14 Cousin Corona (Bonus Track)
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Digital Booklet

Yuck – Doctors In My bed

Here’s the b-side to Get Away

Yuck Festve Festival 2010

It’s not really Christmas without BBC Radio 1’s Festive Festival.

Nick Grimshaw, Zane Lowe, Annie Mac and Daniel P Carter were joined by a sensational seasonal line-up;including  the english shoegaze indie rockers Yuck ..

Setlist

1. Intro

2. The Wall

3. Holing Out

4. Get Away

5. Interview

SXSW 2011: Yuck, Live In Concert NPR Broadcasting

March 16, 2011

Yuck doesn’t worry much about first impressions: Short of calling a band “We’re Terrible,” it’s hard to imagine a name riper for dismissal. On stage, though, this is a remarkably assured young riser. Standing out for reasons far greater than just drummer Jonny Rogoff’s heroically gigantic Afro, Yuck captures the frayed noise and hooky, guitar-driven melodies of ’90s rock, even though its members, at 20, are too young to have experienced it firsthand.

With only a self-titled full-length, an EP and a handful of singles in its arsenal, Yuck doesn’t have a hard time hitting all of its recorded highlights — from a blistering opener in “Holing Out” to the tremendously epic set-closer “Rubber” — in this set from Stubb’s in Austin, Texas, recorded live as part of the South by Southwest music festival. In fact, it’s a testament to Yuck that, at this point in its members’ careers, it’s already got enough highlights to stuff a set this long.

Band Personnel: Daniel Blumberg – Singer and Guitarist; Max Bloom – Guitarist; Jonny Rogoff – Drummer; Mariko Doi – Bassist

SETLIST

“Presentation”

“Holing Out”

“The Wall”

“Shook Down”*

“Suicide Policeman”*

“Get Away”*

“Suck”*

“Operation”*

“Rubber”

*Audio Only

KEXP at SXSW 2011, Day 1: Yuck

released March 16, 2011

Hot off the release of their self-titled debut LP, U.K. based Yuck played the KEXP stage at Mellow Johnny’s. The four-piece alt rock group have consistently been turning heads. Yuck, out now on Fat Possum, is an addicting rock album that defies pigeonholing.

Setlist

Intro

Get Away

Holing Out

Rubber

Shook Down

The Wall

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