Monday, April 27, 2020

Yallow "Rock With You" single released March 2020


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

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