Yellow 6 - Music For Pleasure
(Rocket Racer)
The latest Yellow 6 release is the first CD release
for the previously vinyl only label Rocket Racer.
This release joins the ranks of the many previously
reviewed Yellow 6 albums on fakejazz, and the positive
theme of these reviews will certainly continue here.
Having given Yellow 6's Postcard EP a glowing 12,
I'm not exactly sure where to start with this one,
since I like it even more.
Nothing significant has changed with this release,
and maybe nothing has changed at all, which makes it
difficult to explain why I like this one more than the
others (with the exception of the
Icanhearthemusicallaroundme 12"). The same washes of
guitar are present, the same fluid beats, but, like the
Icanhearthemusicallaroundme release, this one seems
to have a bit more depth and presence than the others.
Beyond that I'm really not sure what sets this
release apart from me; it seems to be slightly more
melancholy than the Postcard EP and Overtone but
not widely different in any other way. If you've
read any of the previous reviews of Yellow 6, you can
probably stop reading here, since the following
descriptions will be quite familiar to you.
Tracks three and four are particularly good. Track
three features a plucked guitar theme on top of warm
drones accented by just the right beat. Track four
(my favorite) has a bit of a stronger deep bass beat
and features fading drones that overlap and bleed into
each other seamlessly. This pattern is accented by
the eventual addition of more (electronic) cymbals and
what sounds like a sample of fingers squeaking across
the strings of a guitar. This description may sound
rather unremarkable, but that's what is so great about
Yellow 6--he can make something
remarkable out of fairly unremarkable elements.
Further descriptions would really be useless, so let
me just stop here and say buy this album and buy it
now (because it's limited to only 500 copies).
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