Yuck,
“Holing Out” / Yuck
As with the aforementioned Sulk, here’s another lot that hit that sweet spot of early ’90s nostalgia: Yuck (have we run out of band names or something?). What’s funny about this band is that although they are, at core, Londoners barely in their 20s, the music is in hock to early ’90s US alt.rock, with the vocalist even adopting the whiny drawl that American indie singers like to use. So we get distorted, fuzzed-out guitar sound over sweet melodic songs, which is all very reminiscent of the kind of noise pop that swam alongside grunge as pilot fish would with a shark. I’m thinking: Sugar’s Copper Blue album, Dinosaur Jr’s Where You Been? and Sonic Youth’s Dirty, with a bit of Pavement, Pixies and The Breeders thrown in there as well. Nice.
To think: I had tickets to their gig at the Electric Ballroom in Camden last November and couldn’t go thanks to my bank account haemorrhaging money out till the last penny. This robbed me of the chance to go turbo nutter bonkers in the mosh-pit during “Holing Out”, slam-dancing to the tasty bit of shredding going on on that song (2:20-2:47; 3:44-> in the video). Gah.
