View basket “Is 4 Lovers” has been added to your basket. 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 Arthur Beatrice Keeping The Peace Rock And Pop | Polydor | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 27th May 2016 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Arthur Beatrice Keeping The Peace £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Polydor SKU: 4776585 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 27th May 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bob Dylan & The Band 1974 Tour Live Rock And Pop | RoxVox | 4LP Released 14th September 2018 £42.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bob Dylan & The Band 1974 Tour Live £42.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: RoxVox SKU: RV4LP2137 Formats: 4LP Released Date: 14th September 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Rilo Kiley Take Offs And Landings Rock And Pop | Barsuk | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 22nd April 2022 £33.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Rilo Kiley Take Offs And Landings £33.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Barsuk SKU: LPBARK019X Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 22nd April 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Wolf Eyes I Am a Problem: Mind In Pieces Rock And Pop | Third Man Records | 1LP Released 30th October 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Wolf Eyes I Am a Problem: Mind In Pieces £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Third Man Records SKU: TMR324 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th October 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Electric Six Fresh Blood For Tired Vampyres Rock And Pop | Metropolis Recordings | 1LP Released 18th November 2016 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Electric Six Fresh Blood For Tired Vampyres £24.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Metropolis Recordings SKU: MET1048V Formats: 1LP Released Date: 18th November 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ryley Walker Course In Fable Rock And Pop | Husky Pants Records | 1LP Released 28th May 2021 £24.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Ryley Walker Course In Fable £24.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Husky Pants Records SKU: HPR008LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 28th May 2021 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Elliott Brood Work And Love Rock And Pop | Paper Bag | 1LP Released 20th October 2014 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Elliott Brood Work And Love £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Paper Bag SKU: PAPER087LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 20th October 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Earth, Wind & Fire Spirit Rock And Pop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 15th January 2021 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Earth, Wind & Fire Spirit £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP2682 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 15th January 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Wesley Gonzalez Appalling Human Rock And Pop | Moshi Moshi | 1LP Released 12th June 2020 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Wesley Gonzalez Appalling Human £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Moshi Moshi SKU: MOSHILP101 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th June 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Arborist A Northern View Rock And Pop | Rollercoaster | 1LP Released 7th February 2020 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Arborist A Northern View £15.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rollercoaster SKU: RCR007LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 7th February 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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