A deliciously maverick streak shows up once again on Yuck's 2011 debut album. Self-produced, it unveils the full breadth and scope of Yuck, showcasing a band capable of sprinting off in pretty much any direction, so diverse and fully realized is its vision. It also shows that their previous releases were merely skimming the tip of the iceberg in terms of what the quartet of Daniel Blumberg, Max Bloom, Mariko Doi and Jonny Rogoff are capable of.
It is a confident, wildly ambitious record, but also one which brims over with a ragged warmth and tenderness, tipping its hat at alt music heroes past such as East River Pipe, Dinosaur Jr and Sparklehorse while at the same time retaining a unique identity entirely its own.