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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
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.
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.
Self-doubt is nowhere near as fun as Tune-Yards manage to make it sound – which is why Sketchy is such a remarkable album
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?
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
Californian alt-pop innovators sounding fresh and maintaining their unique trajectory. Review by Thomas H Green.