aaamusic | On 21, Feb 2011

We should have known this was going to happen. After all, don’t we all started our music education digging into our parents record collection? So it should be no surprise that youngsten now dig into their parents late 80s early 90s tapes for inspiration. And damn right, that was a nice musical period, especially on the other side of the pond, with bands such as Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Dinosaur Jr, Pavement, My Bloody Valentine and Smashing Pumpkins showing us the way of a angrier, dirtier guitar riffs.

If you think you’ve heard it all before, is because you are probably old enough to have actually enjoyed those riffs and now look back at those teenage years with fondness. Nevertheless, Yuck have managed to sound fresh and not become a copy/cat of their parents record.

Their debut, self-titled record is filled with joyful, deep lyrics, combined together with layering guitars noise. Nothing close to the 80s synth sound we got familiar with again at the start of the new century, or the Americana sound. Yuck break free from these two safe paths to start afresh and try being ambassadors of the 90s inspired musical movement (suitable, cool name needed). With homages to the 90s greatest bands in The Wall and Holing Out, as well as personal favourites Georgia and the hypnotic Rose Gives A Lily, it seems like these guys are here to stay.

Author: Alessia Matteoli