Album Review: Tune Yards Sing “I can feel you creep into my private life”
There are certain albums you hear that make you say, “Okay, I got to go see this in concert!”. They ignite curiosity through complete eccentricity, which is exactly what Tune-Yards goes for in I can feel you creep into my private life. While this album, like much new music, tries to approach issues on race, politics, intersectional feminism, and environmentalism, I cannot say I have ever heard anyone analyze these topics quite like them.
When you approach “the serious”, you expect to be equally as serious. Yet, what does that mean? Does it mean depressing, quiet, stagnant, or negative? Tune Yards is anything but these words. They are sporadic, dynamic, and unpredictable as they combat what they feel is government intervention upon their lives. In perspective, your skin, gender, how much money you have, and what party you belong to can completely determine what you have access to: from career to health. It is crazy to think that something as trivial as SKIN can block you from making your life the vision and greatness you want it to be, and Tune Yards have given a life impeded an impressive, backing sound.
Tune-Yards – Look at Your Hands (Official Video)
Every track in I can feel you creep into my private life, feels like it is struggling with invisible barricades, which gives it a “thriller-esque” soundscape. Hammer”, “Honesty”, “Free”, and “Colonizer” change between tempos and tones to make you feel like you are running through a game-maze. At times, you crash into cutting, digitized walls/ beats and, other times, you glide smoothly through jumping baselines. Frankly, I am incredibly inspired by how vivid and intricate Tune Yards’ soundscape can be.
Tune-Yards – Heart Attack (Official Video)
From “Private Life” to “Heart Attack” every song feels like it belongs to another sonic dimension, and can clash with even its predecessor. Yet, they are all connected in strangeness and the fierce vocals of Merrill Garbus, who literally has voice that vogues through songs “Who Are You” and “Coast To Coast”. It is the dancing command of her vocals that transforms topics that can make the best of us feel defeated into issues that ignite your desire to move. It not a bad idea/ approach to have. For Tune Yards adding spiritual/ sonic electricity to our suffering, will push us to be willing to end it or, at least, understand it better. Buy Tune Yards’ I can feel you creep into my private life on January 19 Click Here.
Tune-Yards – ABC 123 (Official Video)
