Present Tense Yumi Zouma SKU: PRC446LP Barcode: 0644110044617 23.00 £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Polyvinyl Released Date: 18th March 2022 Buying Format: 1LP Coloured Vinyl Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Yumi Zouma’s Josh Burgess likens the band’s songwriting process to gardening, “Someone brings in a seed and through collaboration, it grows into a song that is vastly different from its original form.” Like any garden, this one requires dedicated tending, a practice that seems rather inconvenient if not straight-up difficult, considering the fact that the four members live in disparate parts of the world – calling New York, London, and New Zealand home – but long-distance has always been a feature of their songwriting process, not a bug. Their new album, Present Tense, is the product of those efforts, a work Christie Simpson describes as “a gallery wall displaying these different moments in each of our lives. A process of curation, revisiting the past and making it relevant to the present.” You might assume that while some artists have struggled to rethink their processes during a pandemic, Yumi Zouma would be perfectly suited to the COVID-19 lockdown, but the opposite proved to be true. Without looming tour dates driving them to release new music, the prolific band found themselves at a standstill. So they set a date. By September 1st, 2021, the album needed to be finished, regardless of whether they’d be able to tour it or even meet to record together. What began in fits and starts became a committed practice again as Yumi Zouma dug through demos from as early as 2018 to collaborate on and make relevant to the peculiar moment in time the band, and world, was experiencing, memorialized on album opener “Give It Hell.” Remote and in-person sessions in studios in Wellington, Florence, New York, Los Angeles, and London all played a role, and Yumi Zouma brought in new collaborators from different disciplines to broaden their sound. “This is our fourth album, so we wanted to pivot slightly, create more extreme versions of songs,” Charlie Ryder says. “Working with other artists helped with that, and took us far outside of our normal comfort zone.” You can hear the impulse on “In The Eyes Of Our Love,” a song that’s seemingly twice as fast as any prior release, and closer to the classic rock of Dire Straits than the dream pop aesthetics that the band has built their career on so far. Olivia Campion’s drums crash in hard from the outset, sending the accompanying band into a revelry that only breaks upon arriving at the first bridge, when Simpson sings: “But we won’t lose sight of what we said/ I’ll sing from the dirt instead.” There’s a defiance heard throughout Present Tense, a refusal to bend to what might seem fated, communicated not only through lyrics but in the boldness of these arrangements, metamorphosing between tracks without ever losing momentum. Two years away from the road gave Yumi Zouma a new appreciation for the friendship they’ve sustained and the opportunity an abundance of time off-cycle offered. Dedicated to an embattled past, Present Tense is the band’s offering to a tenuous future.“To 2020, and the memory of all that was lost,” they write in the album’s liner notes. “Kia Kaha.” Artist Yumi Zouma Genre Rock And Pop Label Polyvinyl Buying Options 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings Give It Hell Mona Lisa If I Had The Heart For Chasing Where The Light Used To Lay Razorblade In The Eyes Of Our Love Of Me and You Honestly, It’s Fine Haunt Astral Projection Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Yumi Zouma and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Yumi Zouma Truth or Consquences – Alternate Versions Rock And Pop | Polyvinyl | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 7th January 2022 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Yumi Zouma Truth or Consquences – Alternate Versions £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Polyvinyl SKU: PRC417LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 7th January 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View alt-J The Dream Rock And Pop | BMG | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 11th February 2022 £21.00 - £23.00 Select options alt-J The Dream £21.00 - £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: BMG Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 11th February 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View MNNQNS Body Negative Rock And Pop | Fat Cat | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 30th August 2019 £17.00 - £18.00 Select options MNNQNS Body Negative £17.00 - £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Fat Cat Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 30th August 2019 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Ovlov Buds Rock And Pop | Exploding in Sound Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 13th May 2022 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ovlov Buds £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Exploding in Sound Records SKU: LPEIS110IEC Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 13th May 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Happy Mondays Pills ‘N’ Thrills And Bellyaches Rock And Pop | London Records | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 31st January 2020 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Happy Mondays Pills ‘N’ Thrills And Bellyaches £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: London Records SKU: LMS5521288 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 31st January 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Grateful Dead Dick’s Picks Vol. 36—The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA 9/21/72 Rock And Pop | Real Gone Music | 7LP, Box Set Released 28th May 2021 £215.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Grateful Dead Dick’s Picks Vol. 36—The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA 9/21/72 £215.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Real Gone Music SKU: RLGM11381PMI Formats: 7LP, Box Set Released Date: 28th May 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ten Years After Undead Rock And Pop | Proper / Deram Records | 180g, 1LP Released 20th January 2023 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ten Years After Undead £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Proper / Deram Records SKU: UMCLP040 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 20th January 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Death From Above 1979 Is 4 Lovers Rock And Pop | Spinefarm Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 30th April 2021 £22.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Death From Above 1979 Is 4 Lovers £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Spinefarm Records SKU: DFA101LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 30th April 2021 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Spencer Davis Group The Second Album (with bonus tracks) Rock And Pop | Klimt | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 25th January 2019 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Spencer Davis Group The Second Album (with bonus tracks) £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Klimt SKU: MJJ338CC Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 25th January 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Architects For Those That Wish To Exist At Abbey Road Rock And Pop | Epitaph | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 25th March 2022 £25.00 - £29.00 Select options Architects For Those That Wish To Exist At Abbey Road £25.00 - £29.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Epitaph Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 25th March 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Interpol El Pintor Rock And Pop | Soft Limit | 1LP Released 8th September 2014 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Interpol El Pintor £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Soft Limit SKU: SOFTLIMIT01LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 8th September 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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