In 2019 Yīn Yīn unleashed "The Rabbit That Hunts Tigers".
In 2022 they proclaimed "The Age Of Aquarius".
On their brand-new album the Dutch band now moves on from both the hunt of the debut and the time reckoning of their sophomore work, as on "Mount Matsu" it's both "The Year Of The Rabbit" (track 1) and "The Year Of The Tiger" (track 7).
I guess they won't mind if we include some more pets and wildlife fauna to the party. Because judging from this music 2024 could be the year when to everyone's surprise we somehow will save all the animals!
No, that doesn't sound realistic? Well, maybe Yīn Yīn shouldn't have made it a condition then that everybody has to dance while saving the planet. - But here we are. Can't change that now.
I guess they won't mind if we include some more pets and wildlife fauna to the party. Because judging from this music 2024 could be the year when to everyone's surprise we somehow will save all the animals!
No, that doesn't sound realistic? Well, maybe Yīn Yīn shouldn't have made it a condition then that everybody has to dance while saving the planet. - But here we are. Can't change that now.
YĪN YĪN - Mount Matsu (transparent orange vinyl LP) (2024)
Even though the quartet had an important line-up change which caused the songwriting duties to be shared wider among all members now, the trajectory of their discography remains steady: every album gets more danceable, but also more stylistically diverse.
So here they are, sounding richer and crispier than ever, once again glueing together a wild array of influences with natural ease: Seventies' Funk meets Italian Disco and Kraftwerkian Robotik. Japananese Pop morphs into Psychedelic Rock and Thai-Beat surfs with Memphis Soul and other Americana. In-the-pocket grooves, electrifying melodies and moments of pure ascension. It's a vivid mashup, a multi-genre cult cinema festival inside a holy disco palace.
Yīn Yīn aren't a fully instrumental band, but vocals are very sparse, seldom going beyond one occasional line. On "Takahashi Timing" that line is "Takahashi - Never too late", on "Shiatsu for Dinner" the title is also the complete lyrics. Singing is only used as a small nudge to kick-start your imagination and fill in the blanks yourself.
The musical nerdiness, the accumulation of global sounds through the means of stacking percussion and analogue synth sounds on a foundation of Disco, Funk and Kraut Rock, that is the core of this band, where they are having - and spreading - all the fun.
I've said it before, but it remains true: Yīn Yīn's mission is the pure love and joy of music. Maybe that goes a little too far if you consider the photo on the extra sheet which comes with the beautifully packed vinyl version, but each to their own, right?
But seriously: What an amazing uplifting experience is this? What was already great keeps getting better. It's only just January and these dance cats from Mount Maastricht have raised the bar for the feel-good album of the year high into the sky. Whoever wants to crack that needs to fly, because jumping surely won't suffice.
So here they are, sounding richer and crispier than ever, once again glueing together a wild array of influences with natural ease: Seventies' Funk meets Italian Disco and Kraftwerkian Robotik. Japananese Pop morphs into Psychedelic Rock and Thai-Beat surfs with Memphis Soul and other Americana. In-the-pocket grooves, electrifying melodies and moments of pure ascension. It's a vivid mashup, a multi-genre cult cinema festival inside a holy disco palace.
Yīn Yīn aren't a fully instrumental band, but vocals are very sparse, seldom going beyond one occasional line. On "Takahashi Timing" that line is "Takahashi - Never too late", on "Shiatsu for Dinner" the title is also the complete lyrics. Singing is only used as a small nudge to kick-start your imagination and fill in the blanks yourself.
The musical nerdiness, the accumulation of global sounds through the means of stacking percussion and analogue synth sounds on a foundation of Disco, Funk and Kraut Rock, that is the core of this band, where they are having - and spreading - all the fun.
I've said it before, but it remains true: Yīn Yīn's mission is the pure love and joy of music. Maybe that goes a little too far if you consider the photo on the extra sheet which comes with the beautifully packed vinyl version, but each to their own, right?
But seriously: What an amazing uplifting experience is this? What was already great keeps getting better. It's only just January and these dance cats from Mount Maastricht have raised the bar for the feel-good album of the year high into the sky. Whoever wants to crack that needs to fly, because jumping surely won't suffice.
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