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Album Reviews
Album review: Yuck – Yuck (Fat Possum Records)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 1 March 2011
Yuck used to be Cajun Dance Party, a band so mundane that I was able to successfully wipe any trace of them, minus their name, from my memory.
They now play the kind of slacker fuzzpop that Dinosaur Jr churned out in the 90s. You know the drill: twiddly lead guitar melodies subsiding into a wash of half-hearted vocals and lo-fi Guided By Voices-style chord progressions. That’s not to say that ‘Yuck’ is a bad record, it’s far from it, but anyone versed in the group’s obvious influences will tick the influential bands off the list track by track.
‘Shoot Down’ is a major/minor slice of Teenage Fanclub powerpop, ‘Rose Giver A Lily’ comes on like a re-edit of Weezer’s ‘Only in Dreams’, and ‘Suicide Policeman’ is a Broken Social Scene-esque serving of xylaphonic pastoral indie rock. The rest of it tends to sound like a pretty decent Pavement rip-off.
Yuck wallows in the ennui of a wasted morning in the summer holidays. It’s a perfectly serviceable entry level indie-rock record, and hopefully one that will lead its less-versed listeners onto better things. JAB
Physical release: 14 Feb
