sketchy.

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AlbumMar 26 / 202111 songs, 37m 6s
Art Pop Indie Pop
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7 / 10

8 / 10

Tune-Yards develop a bold rallying cry filled with familiar offbeat movements on Sketchy

Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner face up some difficult questions – from the environment to white complacency

7.5 / 10

The art-pop group are back after nearly deciding to disband.

Frenetic and fizzy.

Loose optimism and tight despair drive Tune-Yards' fifth album 'sketchy.', a tale of social injustice softened with colourful soul-pop.

On i can feel you creep into my private life, tUnE-yArDs' Merrill Garbus interrogated her own choices as thoroughly as she questioned society at large on W H O K I L L and Nikki Nack.

Despite its name, there’s nothing ambiguous about Tune-Yards’ return. Merrill Garbus is back with bombast and the permission to take a breather if it all gets too much.

7 / 10

The duo of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner have been making substantial noise as Tune-Yards for over a decade now, including their 2011 brea...

After their last album, I can feel you creep into my private life, saw Tune-Yards turn their sound on its head and re-invent themselves around electronics and voice manipulation, sketchy was always more likely to be an evolutionary - rather than revolutionary - album.

7 / 10

Self-doubt is nowhere near as fun as Tune-Yards manage to make it sound – which is why Sketchy is such a remarkable album

8 / 10

Tune-Yards' sketchy conceptually asks a lot of its listeners and does it right up front: should the purpose of music be to entertain or to instruct?

7.5 / 10

Sketchy by Tune Yards album review by Katie Tymchenko. The duo's full-length is available to via 4AD and streaming services

Themes of climate disaster, gender dysphoria and fighting privilege bubble up through a discomfiting but enjoyable sonic deluge

Album Reviews: Tune-Yards - Sketchy

71 %

The fifth album returns us to early Tune-Yards

Californian alt-pop innovators sounding fresh and maintaining their unique trajectory. Review by Thomas H Green.

8 / 10