The chaos continues right into Medicine Burn. It doesn’t stick around for long until we’re thrown back into the fray and we’re at the mercy of Yves. The verses are like the eye of the storm, an odd calmness in the middle of a hurricane. The contrast between the hook and the verses is astonishing. Then, we get to the hook and all hell breaks loose and it feels like a cannonball is shot right through your speakers.

Then, Yves’ vocals come in with their southern-european-valley accent and the bassline too. That intro makes you wonder what you’re in for because it sounds like a run of the mill sample loop with a drum fill over it. It jampacked with classics and it starts from the beginning with Gospel For A New Century. I’m hyping it up because it deserves it, this was my favorite album of 2020 because no other release caused me to revisit it over and over again. Of course there’s people out there that are putting a 21st century spin on glam rock and noise rock, but none can do it like Yves can. Nothing can prepare you for the emotions that this album will make you feel because there’s nothing out there that sounds like it that’s this good. “Oh, this sounds like Smino,” “Oh, this sounds like a fake Brent Faiyaz,” “Oh, this sounds like yet another Flower Boy runoff.” But sometimes you find the needle in the haystack, that’s artists like LOWERLIPDRIP, SOPHIE, Hanni El Khatib, and the topic for today: Yves Tumor. There’s always something to compare most acts to. It feels like everyone is copying someone that has already broken forth to the mainstream and since there 8 billion people on Earth that means there’s hundreds of thousands of people doing the exact same thing. It’s a terrible thought process to have, but almost everything sounds the same nowadays. It was a fresh sound, a sound that I desperately needed.

I hadn’t heard tamed chaos like that in quite sometime. That was enough to make me dive deeper into their catalogue. I don’t remember how I found them, but the first song I heard by them was Noid. SOPHIE is usually my go to, sometimes Young Fathers are my choice, but the last couple times it’s always been Yves Tumor. Whenever I have the job of driving a group of friends around or I’m on a date I always try to shoehorn in a couple artists to the playlist to see how my passengers will react.

Something's Not Right by yves.