{"id":7324,"date":"2020-04-19T18:49:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T23:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/?p=7324"},"modified":"2020-04-19T18:49:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T23:49:57","slug":"review-yves-tumor-heaven-to-a-tortured-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/19\/review-yves-tumor-heaven-to-a-tortured-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Yves Tumor &#8211; Heaven to a Tortured Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago during our album roundup for September 2018, there was an album that our cohort Rob recommended to me, Yves Tumor&#8217;s <em>Safe at the Hands of Love,<\/em> and after we recorded the episode, I instantly wanted to check that album out. Lo and behold, it ended up being one of my favorite albums of that year: a genre-bending experimental album that manages to pull together the styles of electronic, trance, R&amp;B and even rock into one mold of extravagant music.<\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;re at his fourth album to date and 2nd one on Warp Records (aka the home of such lauded acts from Danny Brown, Flying Lotus and Oneohtrix Point Never), and while I thought &#8220;Applaud&#8221; would be on here, it was just a loosie track. I&#8217;ll have more to say on the other singles that appeared on the album and more but as a whole, this album continues to be that genre-bending extravagant music we got from his last project.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"747\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G-9QCsH3OQM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gospel For A New Century&#8221; starts out the album with the rock elements kicking in, then following with the horns and drum samples. The single that really got me hyped is &#8220;Kerosene!&#8221; and this song just oozes everything sexy, from the guitar riffs, the drums, and the vocals from him and Diana Gordon. It has that raw energy of a Prince track and gets just as sexy and powerful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can be anything<br \/>\nTell me what you need<br \/>\n<i>I can be your baby in real life,\u2005sugar<\/i><br \/>\n<b>I\u2005can live in\u2005your dreams<\/b><br \/>\nI can be where you\u2005need me to, baby<br \/>\nI can do anything<br \/>\n<i>I can be what\u205fyou\u205ftell\u205fme to be<br \/>\nI\u205fcan be what\u205fyou need<\/i><br \/>\nI can be your real life sugar<br \/>\nI can live in your dreams<br \/>\nWill you be my fantasy, little baby?<br \/>\n<b>You&#8217;re just what I need<\/b><br \/>\nCan you be my fantasy, little baby?<br \/>\n<b>You&#8217;re just what I need<\/b><br \/>\nI can be what you need, little baby<br \/>\n<b>Just tell me what you need<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As for the album as a whole, it continues to show the versatility and genre-bending moves that Yves excels at, as this project leans more into glam rock sounds, bohemian soul grooves, and even those R&amp;B tinges in there. The vibes of &#8220;Hasdallen Lights&#8221; elicit a full blown psychedelia tone, &#8220;Strawberry Privilege&#8221; follows through with that &#8217;70s sound, and the two-parter &#8220;Romanticist&#8221; &amp; &#8220;Dream Palette&#8221; has that electronic rock sound much like his previous album. The times I heard &#8220;Super Stars&#8221; listening to this album gave me a lot of power rock vibes from the drums to the strumming guitars, and as it all comes together, it works.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"747\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N0c7lVHMyaY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yves Tumor has done it again with experimentation, but this time, combining everything that is glam rock, R&amp;B, soul and britpop into an amalgamation of an album that has more passion put into it than most albums released the last few years or so. If anything, this is a strong entry for my year-end best-of list.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>FINAL VERDICT:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>Buy It. <\/strong><em>Yeah, this is the stuff that my musical heaven would sound like.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Heaven To A Tortured Mind is on Warp Records and is available on CD, Vinyl, Digital Download and streaming services. As always, you can support them via their <a href=\"https:\/\/yves-tumor.bandcamp.com\/album\/heaven-to-a-tortured-mind\">Bandcamp.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&nbsp; A couple of years ago during our album roundup for September 2018, there was an album that our cohort Rob recommended to \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/19\/review-yves-tumor-heaven-to-a-tortured-mind\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"yasr_overall_rating":4.1,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"Product","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[631,1165,293,1521,7,294,362,952,1520],"class_list":["post-7324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-album-review","tag-alternative","tag-electronic","tag-heaven-to-a-tortured-mind","tag-music","tag-rb","tag-rock","tag-warp","tag-yves-tumor"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.surrealresolution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/download-13.jpg?fit=225%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8GYHU-1U8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7324"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7336,"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7324\/revisions\/7336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}