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Genre:
Electronica
Release Date: 11/28/2006
Texan
Joe Corrales' striking debut as
Yppah is a lush, beautiful mix of melancholic
electronica,
shoegazer melodies, breakbeat drum samples,
hip-hop atmosphere, and somber, sometimes jazzy guitar lines. These dissimilar elements together might suggest a mess, but
Yppah brings everything to a boil to form exotic soundscapes that both reward close listening and work as fine background scores for modern life. With haunting, powerful songs like
"Almost in That Category" and the tender yet ominous
"In Two, the Weakly," Yppah displays production skills and artful arranging on par with genre giants like
Aphex Twin,
Amon Tobin, and
µ-Ziq.
Yppah has more in common with the latter, in that there's more of a sense of emotion rather than frivolity in the melodies. That he implements textures from
post-rock, fractured
shoegazer rock, and
hip-hop while never straying into these genres outright is quite a feat.
"Longtime" is reminiscent of
glitch artists like
Matmos and actually puts them to shame in that it's just as
experimental, but a hundred times more listenable.
You Are Beautiful at All Times is a cohesive excursion into moody
electronica that adds an air of freshness to a genre that sometimes gets quite stale and sterile.
~Tim DiGravina, All Music Guide
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