This is exactly the kind of amazing treat that sparked Yeah Buddy!'s inception, really cool pieces of work that musicians have put a lot of love toward that deserve to be heard as much as music lovers deserve to hear them.
Yee Naaldlooshii is a D.I.Y music lovers dream and the pipe dream of anyone in a group of friends that are in in different bands and really wanna team up, swap members, cover each others songs, write together etc. It is the unholy combination of Bear vs Manero and Frau Pouch that has been moulded together by Skingasm Records and produced by Greg from Punching Swans (formerly Houdini too). It is a hideous wonder, a handsome freak, a disfigured beauty.
If you're wondering what this strange title means, 'Yee Naaldlooshii' is a Navajo tribe term referring to someone who can turn into an animal of their choosing at will. I know this because I googled, then subsequently Wiki'd it. It is all pretty interesting when you start reading into it and it makes a great concept for an album, it is perfectly fitting for this, a bunch of songs made by bands who're wearing each others skin so to speak. We are even seen off of 'Bearception' by banshee-esque howls of "let me wear your skin" in the unhinged end 'Bareback In The Woods'.
Things do not, at any point, receive treatment to make them less maniacal. Opener 'Bear vs Manero' seems to tell the story of how the battle between Manero and the brown bear took place and its outcome. 'Frau Pouch' is my personal favourite and almost channels the spirit of Sweet's 'Ballroom Blitz' (albeit an insane, nightmarish rendition) which is in no way a bad thing.
The centre of the album, somewhat unsurprisingly consists of more foamy mouthed, fractious frolics in the meaty lump 'Bearception' (sumo heavy riffage), the stomping 'The Birth' (great intergender vocal dynamic) and the unsettling 'Media Cirus' ("he's not a product that's for sale, he's our baby" really got me involved...emotionally).
Heading into the climax, 'Bear Witch' is propelled along by spiralling riffs which hurl us into the finale and aforementioned 'Bareback in the Woods', it's a mud hole stomping slut of a track, featuring Greg from Punching Swans/ Houdini as a vocal guest, that spits us out bewildered, dazed and slightly concerned but overall very satisfied.
There are so many things that I love about 'Yee Naaldlooshii', its pure basis of 2 friendly bands from a thriving scene swapping ideas, the concept album style that has clearly been very well thought out and most of all the actual music. It is just simple, fun and beefy as a gym junky on mega steroids. This is the epitome D.I.Y in music, it is the 'T.V's Handy Andy' of the independent music scene and it just gave Carol Smiley a hefty bumming.
Check it out right here;
https://soundcloud.com/skingasm/sets/bear-vs-manero-frau-pouch
Krystian Hudson
Yee Naaldlooshii is a D.I.Y music lovers dream and the pipe dream of anyone in a group of friends that are in in different bands and really wanna team up, swap members, cover each others songs, write together etc. It is the unholy combination of Bear vs Manero and Frau Pouch that has been moulded together by Skingasm Records and produced by Greg from Punching Swans (formerly Houdini too). It is a hideous wonder, a handsome freak, a disfigured beauty.
If you're wondering what this strange title means, 'Yee Naaldlooshii' is a Navajo tribe term referring to someone who can turn into an animal of their choosing at will. I know this because I googled, then subsequently Wiki'd it. It is all pretty interesting when you start reading into it and it makes a great concept for an album, it is perfectly fitting for this, a bunch of songs made by bands who're wearing each others skin so to speak. We are even seen off of 'Bearception' by banshee-esque howls of "let me wear your skin" in the unhinged end 'Bareback In The Woods'.
Things do not, at any point, receive treatment to make them less maniacal. Opener 'Bear vs Manero' seems to tell the story of how the battle between Manero and the brown bear took place and its outcome. 'Frau Pouch' is my personal favourite and almost channels the spirit of Sweet's 'Ballroom Blitz' (albeit an insane, nightmarish rendition) which is in no way a bad thing.
The centre of the album, somewhat unsurprisingly consists of more foamy mouthed, fractious frolics in the meaty lump 'Bearception' (sumo heavy riffage), the stomping 'The Birth' (great intergender vocal dynamic) and the unsettling 'Media Cirus' ("he's not a product that's for sale, he's our baby" really got me involved...emotionally).
Heading into the climax, 'Bear Witch' is propelled along by spiralling riffs which hurl us into the finale and aforementioned 'Bareback in the Woods', it's a mud hole stomping slut of a track, featuring Greg from Punching Swans/ Houdini as a vocal guest, that spits us out bewildered, dazed and slightly concerned but overall very satisfied.
There are so many things that I love about 'Yee Naaldlooshii', its pure basis of 2 friendly bands from a thriving scene swapping ideas, the concept album style that has clearly been very well thought out and most of all the actual music. It is just simple, fun and beefy as a gym junky on mega steroids. This is the epitome D.I.Y in music, it is the 'T.V's Handy Andy' of the independent music scene and it just gave Carol Smiley a hefty bumming.
Check it out right here;
https://soundcloud.com/skingasm/sets/bear-vs-manero-frau-pouch
Krystian Hudson