YELLS by yy wood
Available now on tape and digital: yy wood’s slippery pop-auteurism is the stuff that shakes the long-grass, the spanner in the works. Born of air and born again of fire, their debut release YELLS sees the pair embrace disorder, melancholy, deep sweetness and humour-laden rancour. At their most vibrant, vocalist Tess Wood’s urgent yearning and playful interjections slip and slide between the folds of producer Ya Yonder's esoteric big-beat and wonky worship; in their less raucous moments, a gust of sonorous, dream-logic absurdism, feather-light textures and eventide keys
Following an October 2023 residency at SHIFT, Cardiff, the duo spent time interrogating their sound’s relationship with space and movement in the live environment. Off the back of this comes seven tracks for tape, including Not golden yet, recently premiered on Noods; a swaggering surge of syrupy hard-then-soft maximalism. Through this, Wood decants the inane / inspired replies of a chatbot by diving into the mind of someone who finds their modes and limits of expression are increasingly influenced by AI
Such assumed roles, adjacent worlds, imagined conflicts and heightened emotional states feature throughout an EP fuelled by the frictions and contradictions that making music and working collaboratively in 2024 can generate; but with any luck, what shines through best on YELLS is a shared passion for brave and bold music that reaches for the peripheries of form and structure, and simultaneously the vital energies in simplicity and good pop music
Join us for a launch party at Cardiff’s Paradise Garden on Friday October 4th, and catch Tess and JT on Noods Radio’s ‘Adre’ on Sunday October 13th
Tracklist
| 1. | Not golden yet | 3:49 |
| 2. | YELLS OH! | 4:24 |
| 3. | Stray | 3:43 |
| 4. | bottom lip | 2:58 |
| 5. | Stunner | 6:18 |
| 6. | Body not warm | 4:25 |
| 8. | sensation IS | 4:10 |
Credits
All music by JT and Tess Wood
