Hollow Me LP

1st Dec 08
Hollow Me LP Hear

WHAT
HOLLOW ME LP

WHO
YURA YURA TEIKOKU

WHERE
12" SINGLE HERE
 
ON
DFA

MYSPACE
HTTP://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/YURAYURATEIKOKU

 

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From what I can glean, ‘Yura Yura' in Japanese is an onomatopoeic term for ‘a wobbly, unstable feeling'. ‘Teikoku' translates to ‘empire'. For a wobbly empire, Japan's Yura Yura Teikoku is straight up one of the world's most phenomenal psych bands. After keeping it together for a whole 19 years, they've finally been snapped up by a major and have delivered one of the best albums of 2008, HOLLOW ME.

With driving Kraut drums ala Can, wah wah melodies, sleazily restrained saxophone lines and the entranced vocals of Shintaro Sakamoto, Yura Yura deliver psychadelics without the freak outs. Outside of Japan this record has been achingly difficult to find, until now: New York's ever-present DFA bring it to the world with a 12" released just last week. Get wobbly.

By Jimmy Sing

Release: Mini LP

To Cure: A predictable playlist

Keywords: DFA Records, Yura Yura Teikoku

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