Unreal
The ex-Yuck frontman Daniel Blumberg's first album as Hebronix is a hangover/breakup record produced by Royal Trux’s Neil Hagerty. Unreal features frazzled, fuzz-flecked guitar tones and marathon track lengths and comes off as decidedly less wholesome than any of Blumberg’s previous work.
Clocking in at over seven minutes, “Rubber” is by far the longest song on Yuck’s self-titled 2011 debut. The slow, plodding track is also a compelling change of pace from the more caffeinated slacker-pop that surrounds it. Since making that album, singer-guitarist Daniel Blumberg has left Yuck—which is attempting to…
One-time Yuck frontman Daniel Blumberg's solo debut is a labyrinthine effort you'll find almost impossible to not get lost in.
Back in April, a Facebook post from the band Yuck announced that frontman Daniel Blumberg had left the British '90s-rock…
This musical U-turn appeared to be just what Daniel Blumberg had wanted but, if Unreal is anything to go by, he is keen to dig further away from the mainstream still to find his place with Hebronix.
Unreal achieves a kind of weightless beauty above and beyond anything else in Blumberg’s repertoire.
Daniel Blumberg is still in no danger of making mainstream impact but his mini-album has a lovely, dreamy energy, writes <strong>Dave Simpson</strong>