We Yes You No
Music For Beginners LP
I blame Ian McCulloch. Ever since he and his merry (ha!) band of Bunnymen first started peddling their particular brand of morose indie there has been a steady stream of trenchcoated young men peering through their mop tops and twanging their telecasters mournfully. It could be the weather in this country but you never get this kind of music from a gaggle of Californians!
The latest in the long line of (decidedly po-faced) bands to take up the mantle are We Yes You No who arrive in a flurry of cryptic song titles and particularly long outro’s. The problem I have though with this particular brand of doom laden indie is that often the material all starts to sound the same. The same goes with this release, while having a fantastic grasp of dynamics and how to construct a wall of sound, the band don’t appear to have the depth and breadth of songwriting to be able to match.
All too often here, chiming guitars and spacious mixes (that sound like they were recorded in a cathedral in some places) sprawl themselves comfortably into a songs very core but then never really seem to do anything. While highlights ‘Apocalypse Pocket Edition’ and ‘Dream in Motion’ would make a pant wettingly good double aside, here they simply fall by the wheyside and are dragged into the mire for no other reason than they sound like everything else here.
While the much mooted shoegaze revival continues to wane, its hard to see a record like this having much commercial appeal and when coupled with a lack of many vastly different song writing ideas, the future may be bleak… Hopefully the band will resolve to try and make amends in the song writing department and forge their own way… Here’s hoping for a follow up that delivers on the good promise that seeps through the bedsit walls on occasions here.
Guest article from Ben M.
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