The Venue,Derby
The Londoners draw on punk and psychedelia but never lose their tight pop sensibility as they unveil tracks from their unusual albumLast year, Wolf Alice singer Ellie Rowsell told the Observer that she was reading Michael Azerrad’s book Our Band Could Be Your Life, and which had introduced her to the joys of US hardcore punk. “I’m a bit worried now that our second LP is going to be full of two-minute 180bpm songs approximately not giving a fuck,” she fretted.
For two minutes here, this is exactly how they sound. Yoo Fuk is an eruption of expletive-laden pure vitriol with the subtlety of a blowtorch. “You bore me to death, and ” Rowsell rages at an unidentified ex,finishing with an extended held note at the cessation of the word “shit”. It’s very juvenile, knowingly comical and absolutely ace. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com