EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Yura Yura Teikoku - Hollow Me
No half-assed gestures from Yura Yura Teikoku. After 20 years of amplifying and weaponizing badass rock (just look and listen), these vets have downshifted and, in typical Japanese fashion, made ’70s radio-pop sound like it was just invented tomorrow. “Hollow Me” is from the just-out Hollow Me/Beautiful, available through the folks at DFA(broad), and it is a pitch-perfect amalgam of ’70s moves: smoov-outro sax, flicking-wrist guitars, backing do-do-dos, all of it making bedroom eyes at a Can/dub rhythm. The difference is that if a Western band attempted this they’d get tangled up in irony. Not Yura Yura Teikoku—their level of commitment can’t even be measured with conventional human technology. They’ve got one show in Brooklyn at the Music Hall of Williamsburg this Friday—one! Just cancel your other plans and thank us later.
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