Not to be confused with the Michael Jackson hit
of the same name (not that you would), Rock With You is the latest release
from Japanese ultra-rock outfit Yallows.
The laid-back intro reminded me of a couple of the bands I reviewed on
the old mp3.com.au site back in the
day, but Rock With You really kicks in at 34”
with twists and turns through the styles already established through their body
of work, especially with their previous release “SYSTEM”.
This isn’t to say that Rock With You is more of the same as
Yallows
already has in their body of work- this keeps surprising through subtle
phrasing and soundscape changes. In Rock With You I got Courtney
Love / Hole and Screamworld* vocals in the chorus and guitars
throughout with appropriate chunks to keep things moving along as we’ve come to
expect.
Whether you’re listening in the context of the other material
on their YouTube
channel or as a random stand-alone music lover trawling the Interwebz for
new music, you’ll get into this one right up until the (spoiler alert) sudden
ending. If you’re a lyrics-listener, though, you might want to read along with
the appropriate page on their website.
Yallows-
rock out!
PG (Jacky) Gleeson
27/04/2020
* Screamworld (no
relation to the fun-park of the same name in Houston TX) was a band active on Sydney’s
alt-rock / pre-Internet underground in the mid-1990s. Steve Harris and Debbie were life-partners at the time as well as the musical muse of this
outfit. I wasn’t able to find anything online about them at the time of writing
the TOAN and TOAN2 reviews and material still isn’t available.
Suffice is to say that vocalist Debbie
sounded for all the world, with her own inimitable twist, like Courtney
Love at the time
