Spacey trippy electronics, Yoome takes you on this strange sort of trip to another world. Very low-key off kilter rapped vocals make for a quite surreal journey through the nether regions of your psyche. Or something like it anyway. At least that’s how it starts out, then it slowly moves into a more typical hip hop inspired vibe, not losing the spacey edge, but just much more groovy, while introducing more sung than rapped vocals. With interesting breaking and crashing noises in the background.
I have to say though I prefer the tracks the most that feature the rapped vocals more prominently It offsets the very tripped out pretty music in the background, making a really unique listening experience. And that is not to detract from Yoome as a whole, I just find these tracks to be really strangely compelling, like being sucked into some giant vortex of just, I don’t know sort of relaxed mental freedom or something. It really takes you on a freaked out crazy trip.
And you don’t really know where it’s leading you, but you you feel yourself drifting around and around in some form of alien space void. And there is this weird coldness to it. Like at times equally incredibly vivid and evocative, yet at the same time totally removed and on this weird distant space.
Almost like viewing the world from a spot outside of everyday earthly things, removed form the actual performance of these actions, yet things that are being experienced at the same time. I suppose a kind of out of bodiness. The track “Debt” is pretty much awesome, just about the holism of debt in out society. The mantra debt is repeated over and over while alternating singers list all the ways in which we are indebted throughout society.
Oddly enough the male and female vocalists are sort of playing off each other, and at the same time sort of undermining the other character. But not as musicians, almost like the characters in the song are attacking each other. Like criticising and commenting on the other characters. It’s a fairly neat little trick. Overall a very odd hodgepodge of styles and sounds and ideas all swirled together into this sort of mad chaos that all plays together and makes something damn interesting. And it gets better as you listen too.
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