{"id":389,"date":"2006-12-28T23:40:09","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T22:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=389"},"modified":"2006-12-28T23:40:09","modified_gmt":"2006-12-28T22:40:09","slug":"yppah-you-are-beautiful-at-all-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"yppah &#8211; you are beautiful at all times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">released in the midst of crimbo chaos 2006, this  wonderful album needs to be given some more attention out there i think.  <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>yppah <\/EM>(&#8220;yippah&#8221; to make it easier to ask  for at your local record shop) is, in the real world, a young texan called joe  corrales, who alongside his well worn instrumental hip hop records has obviously  a love for layered guitar music a la <STRONG>my bloody valentine<\/STRONG> as  these 11 tracks easily prove. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">the fundamental scope of this debut, is of course  easy on the ear hip hop styled drum loops, on top of which joe has added  carefully crafted layers of instrumentation. <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">so  in the mix, are echoed piano parts, old school sounding keyboards, fat and warm  bass lines and guitars. guitars, which are often heavily processed, not in an  industrial mtv processed manner, but in a more natural,&nbsp;shoegazing manner  making this a rather wonderful 34 minute headphone treat.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">of course, if you, like me, put this album on while  not really paying attention, then the music can come across as somewhat slight  and maybe even inconsequential, however, this is misleading as the attention to  detail within the soundscapes is very impressive. the scattershot drums  interacting with the stereo phased swirling noises during <EM>cannot see  straight, <\/EM>the&nbsp;stripped down bass funk of the minimalist beauty that  is&nbsp;<EM>in my drink,&nbsp;<\/EM>or the supremely melodic closer <EM>longtime  <\/EM>(recalling the early beatbox\/acoustic guitar experiments of moshi moshi  artist <STRONG>matt harding)<\/STRONG><EM>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/EM>being&nbsp;a select  choice of many such highlights giving an indication that <EM>yppah <\/EM>is a  name to look out for in coming years.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">so in summary : a real treat for those that happen  to take a chance on this understated release.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">out now on <EM>ninjatune<\/EM>.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjatune.net\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; released in the midst of crimbo chaos 2006, this wonderful album needs to be given some more attention out there i think. yppah (&#8220;yippah&#8221; to make it easier to ask for at your local record shop) is, in the real world, a young texan called joe corrales, who alongside his well worn instrumental hip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}