I think that it is safe to say that the wonderfully titled Citizens of Yeah! make indie music. But so broad and vague is such a label that it is also fair to say that they are as far away from the mainstream pop-pickers and chart watchers’ idea of what Indie is as it is possible to get. And that is a real tragedy because the music that this Newcastle Upon Tyne-based modern, one-man-band is precisely the shot in the arm that the music scene needs right now, a reminder that substance beats style every time, that integrity is better than transient popularity, that deft songwriting is still an artform to be appreciated.
“Kimberella” is a quirky and quaint number built on bubbling bass lines and skittering drums, “Battenberg Uncertainty Principle,” which I would mention just for the great name, even if it weren’t a brilliantly brusque on/off slice of college rockness and recent single, “3 Little Piggies” combines slashes of indie guitar with imaginative lyrical play.
The album rounds off with “Orpheus and Eurydice,” which proves that the citizen in question is as clever with drifting ambiance and mournful trumpets as he is with chugging, warped indie-pop guitar.
If you told me that the People’s Republic of YEAH was an actual place, I’d be packing a bag and looking for my passport like a shot. It sounds like a great place to spend some time.
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