Yolk In The Fur

Description

With Yolk In The Fur, Wild Pinks much-anticipated follow-up to its eponymous 2017 debut full-length, the three piece again takes its listeners to a place of sonic placidity. Frontman John Ross and his bandmates trade what sparing crunch they did use on the self-titled LP for lush, balmy synths that lift their sound upwards and out, rather than forward and down.

Any traces of slowcore and grunge are gone here, replaced by the angelic airiness of Cocteau Twins and Red House Painters, but with the modern crispness of LAKE or Japanese Breakfast. Sporadic splashes of electronic drums and emphasized basslines add fascinating new dimensions to their alreadydiverse palette, but no instrument or tone ever feels shoehorned in. Each part is stitched seamlessly into the other, and the bands aptitude for unexpected changeups is only heightened with the ability to shift from artificial to natural instrumentation. Although its both the shortest and most straightforward cut in the tracklist, closer All Some Frenchmans Joke is a satisfying thematic knot for what Ross says is an album about protecting something vulnerable.