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New Zealand indiepop band Yumi Zouma have announced that Partisan collaborator NoSo will support their spring 2022 tour, starting April 7th in Atlanta and wrapping up May 6 in San Diego.

In between they’ll stop in DC, Philly, Brooklyn ( Music Hall of Williamsburg on 4/13 ), Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles ( The Roxy 5/5 ) + more.

Last fall Partisan Records announced the signing of LA-based NoSo – real name, Abby Hwong (they/them) – who recently their resilient and melodic new single “Suburbia”. The song reflects on the absurdity of a certain type of suburban upbringing (NoSo grew up in the predominately white Chicago suburb that ‘Mean Girls’ was based on) juxtaposed with loving memories of friendship and nostalgia.

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Oh wow! We are speechless! Last week we got the chance to catch Yumi Zouma and NoSo on their newest tour. As it was a vibrant and vivid show, we got to hear some of their newest music released during the height of the pandemic. It was an amazing show that kept us on our feet the whole time. 

Their opener, NoSo, had surprised the crowd (in the best way possible). NoSo had covered songs like ‘David,’ ‘Allie,’ and ‘Suburbia.’ It was awesome to see such a responsive and positive crowd that didn’t want them to leave. Also, NoSo had expressed positive remarks thanking Yumi for bringing them on tour. This was NoSo’s last show with Yumi Zouma. If you’re looking for some chill and relaxed music with vibes like Japanese Breakfast and Samia, check them out! 

Yumi Zouma had brought the energy the crowd needed on a rainy Thursday night. The crowd had been some of the sweetest and most interactive people, and everyone danced the night away to songs like ‘Cool For A Second’ and ‘Depths (pt. I).’ We had seen Charlie and Josh (multi-instrumental guitarists) hype up the crowd with jokes and dance moves while Christie (Lead vocals) and Olivia (drums) girlbossed in every way possible. Overall, The whole vibe of this Boston show had perfectly matched their overall sound to a T: Energetic, lively, and beautiful. 

Lastly, If you get a chance to see Yumi Zouma or Noso on their US tours, please go prepared to completely lose yourself while dancing with strangers. It’ll be the best experience, we promise!

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• Where the Light Used to Lay
• Cool for a Second
• Right Track / Wrong Man
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• Crush (It's Late, Just Stay)
• Powder Blue / Cascine Park
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Yumi Zouma Break Down New Album Present Tense Track By Track: Exclusive

The post Yumi Zouma Break Down New Album Present Tense Track By Track: Exclusive appeared first on Consequence .

For our Track by Track feature, artists open up about the stories behind each song on their latest album. Today, Yumi Zouma takes us through their timely new album, Present Tense.

The members of Yumi Zouma (Christie Simpson, Josh Burgess, Charlie Ryder, and Olivia Campion) are here in the moment. What the New Zealand alt-pop group seems to understand is that we’re all caught in an unstable place right now; able to see the past with clarity while also tentatively looking forward to a wildly unpredictable future.

This is the band’s fourth album together, and their cohesiveness and chemistry are both noticeably fine-tuned at this point in their story. Through the record packed with pedal steel, saxophones, woodwinds, and strings, it’s that focus on time that runs most steadily.

“The lyrics on these songs feel like premonitions, in some regards,” lead singer and keyboardist Christie Simpson shares. “So much has changed for us, both personally and as a band, that things I wrote because the words sounded good together now speak to me in ways I didn’t anticipate.”

Yumi Zouma co-founder Josh Burgess has broken down the album in our latest Track By Track interview. Stream Present Tense and read the commentary in full below; you can also catch the band on tour this spring.

“Give It Hell”

This is the first song we finished for the album. It feels triumphant in the face of uncertainty and disappointments (read: the last two years!). Some lovely strings in there near the end, for some reason that reminds me of Ireland? Unsure why!

“Mona Lisa”

Ever seen the Mona Lisa? It’s actually quite small in real life! This was one that was started a while back and went from being quite cute to a bit dark… perhaps a reflection of the time it was completed in? We revived the “Mona Lisa” line in the eleventh hour as I was going through a breakup and those weird feelings of your life being yours and yours alone to reconcile with. Some slamming brass in the end there — love a good sax moment!

“If I Had The Heart For Chasing”

A total montage of a couple years of addition and subtraction. It was sort of the backbone of working on this record, as we felt it captured something we wanted out of us early on. Beautiful dark cello from a lovely cellist in LA’s Emily Elkin, and a beautiful vocal performance from Christie. I still tear up when I hear the bridge.

“Where The Light Used To Lay”

Sometimes a new toy, environment or frame of mind can totally flip something you’re working on. The same day I got a new laptop and took the rent on a new studio in Brooklyn, I opened up this song and the whole ½ time minimal thing came along. Perhaps an ode to The Cars? Kenny Gillmour really did a great mix on this.

“Razorblade”

This is an oldie. Charlie and I started writing it the day our guitarist Sam Perry told us it was time he moved on to his own endeavors. I remember bursting into tears, not because I was sad he made the call, but because it was the culmination of knowing that era was over. He’s one of our closest friends and committed a lot of his early twenties to Yumi Zouma. The big distorted outro is an homage to the grit he brought to us.

“In The Eyes Of Our Love”

What a ripper!! I don’t think we have another song quite like this one. It was a last-minute addition from Charlie, who is always convinced we need to go faster . I love how this came out — it’s really powerful and feels much like our music taste, a total mash of so many different influences.

Charlie’s girlfriend Val provided a lovely spoken-word section in the bridge, as I tried to play like Jerry Garcia (although I’ve never really listened to The Dead, Mac DeMarco always cited his melodic noodlings coming from Jerry, so maybe more Mac!). How good is Olivia on the drums? Unreal!

“Of Me And You”

This is the last song we finished on the record. For a long time it had a different chorus and it was an impasse in the band. It’s funny how things feel like a big deal until one day they’re not! The line “floating out of Elsewhere” references the Brooklyn venue a few blocks from my apartment, and that nice faded feeling when you leave a gig or the club. I held that line close when there were no clubs to float out of.

“Honestly It’s Fine”

Perhaps my fave on the record. The piano intro comes from our good friend Andrew Keoghan, who provides a lot of instrumentation to our music. If I was half as talented as he is at playing one instrument, I’d consider myself lucky! I wanted to try to have a mix of Air and Fleetwood Mac in there somehow, with the electric and dry ass studio drums. All those sirens from the streets of Brooklyn as I tried to track acoustic guitar in my noisy apartment.

The ending is actually the demo of this song I started in 2019. I was walking home and started singing, “Honestly it’s fine, the way that you left it,” and ran back to put it down.

“Haunt”

This song came to me in Berlin on vacation with my ex-girlfriend. I really thought it was going to be a love song, but to be honest, the lyrics never really felt right — which is perhaps a little ominous. “I take another’s voice and walk around the block” is all that remains from that version.

While we were tracking vocals, Christie started unloading details of an emotionally abusive relationship she had as a teenager. It was incredible to hear it all come out, even on a Zoom link. I knew then that the song was no longer mine, and it took on a whole new life. I’m really proud of Christie in this one — it’s brave to confront something like this in a song.

“Astral Projection”

In the depths of the aforementioned breakup, I flew to LA. I needed the sunshine, I needed the distraction, and I needed to not be in New York. The first day in the studio by myself, I shut off my phone and WiFi, and dove into this. Charlie really turned this song around, and it was time to fill some gaps. I added, “When I let it come to me I feel free,” into the chorus — I was at a low point and found comfort in moving through what I was feeling.

I grew up in a time where men (especially in New Zealand) were taught to be stoic in the face of emotion. Fuck that, let it come to you, feel it, cry, call a friend and try feel free.

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New Zealand-based band Yumi Zouma is about to embark on their first solo tour with their debut album. Despite these two firsts, they’re far from unprepared. With their first EP, Yumi Zouma attracted the attention of Australian musician Chet Faker and had the opportunity to tour with him across North America and Australia, and then played two EPs to massive audiences in support of Lorde. It may be their first solo tour, but they sure are ready to dive in.

While their music has always been dreamy, their forthcoming album, Yoncalla , is transcendent. All of the songs conjure up feelings of getaway, and could make even the most dull airport security lines seem sweetly mysterious. It doesn’t seem like a far stretch to say this wanderlust emotion is distilled within their sound because of the distance they cross with their music—the members of Yumi Zouma live on the opposite sides of the world. Despite the distance, Yoncalla  carves out a distinct spot for them in the music scene; the band now sounds fully formed and grown. 

Prior to the release of their new single "Short Truth," we had the chance to chat with members Christie Simpson, Charlie Ryder, and Josh Burgess. Listen to the song while the conversation unfolds, below.

How did you all meet each other? How did the band come to be?

Josh Burgess:

Christchurch [New Zeland] is a small place; we all ended up crossing paths and collaborating in other bands. Charlie and I then left for New York and Paris respectively and then began writing music via sharing files over the Internet. That was the real birth of Yumi Zouma.

Charlie Ryder:

I know I definitely met Josh in high school at a band competition in Auckland about nine years ago, I think I met Sam in a music store in Christchurch about eight years ago, and I think I met Christie at an all-ages venue about six years ago, but I'm not completely sure—they were all such transcendental experiences. Like Josh said, the band came to be after we started emailing songs to each other overseas, and then Jeff from Cascine decided to release the EP, and people actually liked it! If no one had cared, Yumi Zouma probably wouldn't have been a band. It would've just been that one EP, but stuff got so crazy after that first release, we kind of had to grow up very quickly—our first shows were pretty much our first band practices.

Christie Simpson:

I met Josh and Charlie when I was asked to sing backing vocals in a band these two played in ages ago—after they saw me singing "Rhiannon" by Fleetwood Mac at an all-ages show!

When you think of the perfect place to play Yoncalla , what do you picture?

A party with all our friends, their friends, and our families. 

Swimming in a stream in the middle of summer, or somewhere on our upcoming album release tours!

A warm night, windows open, sun setting—or like Charlie said, swimming in one of the bays in the harbor near our hometown in the middle of New Zealand summer. Heavenly. Or maybe Paris in springtime by the Seine. I haven't quite decided.

Yoncalla is a slight departure from your first two EPs

... Why is this? What was the inspiration behind it?

I don't think there was any conscious decision behind a change in sound. EP one and two were both written pretty early on for us—

, for instance, was written in 2012—so I think it's a reflection of tastes changing and wanting to keep things interesting for us. While I would agree that sonically things have changed, I feel we still approach songwriting in a similar way. Lots of hooks and distinctive changes to keep people engaged. Or at least we hope! 

I think we wanted to keep moving forward with what our music sounded like, and it's an easy thing to keep going more electronic, especially when you're a band that already is really digital. Although to be honest, some of our most synthy songs are on the older EPs—songs like "Alena" had hardly any guitars on them—while I think our most guitar-heavy song is "Haji Awali" on the new album, so I don't know if any of that is true.

You are all spread apart from each other geographically, how does this shape your sound?

I think it keeps us pretty grounded and sane. We're all very different people who do different things with our time apart, and I think it's important that we have some distance to still maintain our sense of self. I have no interest in being in a band that has a collective identity that overshadows us as individuals. That sounds like a sophomore manifesto smeared in blood at art school but I think there is some truth in it. I love that we're all very different from one another.

I'm of the opposite opinion a little bit—I think being apart and writing piece by piece makes Yumi Zouma a separate entity that is kinda more than the sum of its parts, like us as solo songwriters. We can tell which parts were recorded by whom (although not so much on the new album), but when it's all put together, it's totally different music than what any of us would make individually. When we got together to record this album, we lost our sense of individual self a little bit, as we were collaborating at a way more immediate level, and I think the music has more of a life of its own because of that.

Two years into making music together, how has your vision of what the band can be expanded?

We never thought we would tour. It's still a struggle to make it happen but it's now a part of what we do. I think the biggest difference is that people listen to our music. That still really scares me. Does that change our vision? I'm not sure but it changes our relationship with things that are released. You lose ownership because it becomes a part of other people's lives. For me, that's the most exciting and exhilarating thing. 

We never expected to Yumi Zouma to become a real band. But after all that stuff happened with the first EPs and the Lorde tour, I don't think our outlook has changed much. We've used a studio for the first time on this record but, for the most part, we still record in the same way and have the same label and distribution more or less. We know we're a small band with limitations (unless something weird happens in the future), and we're not going to do an about-turn on our next album or something to try and compete with other releases. We're happy making intimate songs that some people connect with and that are personal to us. 

Do you feel that touring on the other side of the world (from New Zealand to North America) changed your work, perhaps even because of who you were touring with?

The biggest change was to go from supporting to headlining shows. It was a crazy feeling during the EP two tour when we'd headline a show somewhere completely foreign to us in the U.S. or in the UK or Japan for instance, and the room would be packed with people there just to see us, and people would queue up afterward for photos and signatures and stuff. That change kind of makes you realize that it isn't just a hobby you do for yourself in your spare time—and I think stuff like that spurred us on to do the album. 

It's so rewarding. I find I want to keep writing so we can keep touring and keep on meeting these cool people that like our music. New Zealand fans are nice but I think our most enthusiastic fans are from Japan, and we never would've known that to be so true if we hadn't toured there!

How does preparing for a headlining tour with a full, new album differ from your previous tours?

Well, most obviously, we'll have heaps of songs for the first time ever. We used to have this bizarre situation where we'd get asked to do encores at shows, and so we'd have to play some of the same songs again from the set we'd already played. Now that will never happen unless a promoter wants us to play for three hours or something. In another way, it differs because the instrumentation is a bit different, so we've had to change the gear we use and expand our set up here and there, which is fun for us.

I'm going to be away from home for so long, this time around, so the preparation is mental as well as physical. I have to get used to the idea of not seeing my friends and family for four months. I'm so excited, though—one of my favorite parts of tour preparation is finding things to wear on stage, and I think I've got it sorted. Counting down the days.  

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It's fair to say most relationships couldn't surpass a decade of long distance let alone a band making music across multiple time zones. While Yumi Zouma began in Ōtautahi Christchurch the band didn't start writing together until they were separated by seas and scattered across Islands.

The band features Christie Simpson, Josh Burgess, Charlie Ryder, and Olivia Campion, who live between The US, UK and Aotearoa. Their start as a group wasn't conventional either. They were asked to open for Lorde’s arena shows for thousands of fans and quickly signed to a label in New York. All before they had organised their first band practice. 

Soon Yumi Zouma would tour Europe and North America writing music and sending endless emails while each other were sleeping. The band's perseverance to find a way to perform and continue that dream can't have been easy, but you wouldn't know it listening to their latest record EP IV . The release is a colourful cluster of dreamlike songs revised through multiple remixed and instrumental offerings, and my favourite by the band to date. 

Opening song 'KPR' is a reassuring twist, evolving into glistening shoegaze layered guitar, cushioned by group vocal lines. EP IV was recorded in Tokyo, South of Shibuya at Studio Mech. Where the band were able to come together for three weeks in Japan and lay down new music outside of tour unlike their former 2022 album present tense which was recorded entirely remotely. 

The band were welcomed locally, meeting musicians Adaptrook and Neeche in Yutenji who both went on to make their own versions of songs. Like this electronic twist of Yumi Zouma’s Kicking up daisies. 

'Be Okay' starts as a soothing tonic for heartbreak and quickly builds morphing into a cathartic emo jam. Perhaps their days of recording albums in different islands are no longer. After 70 shows in 2023 across the globe. The band might have earned  the right to record in Tokyo together again. 

'Desert Mile' is full of the breadth the band shows as musicians. A plucky pop track with country twists that showcases the best of Yumi Zouma.

The band continues to go against the grain, choosing to release three versions of each song. Maybe that’s because each member had a different preference. Whatever the reasons, it's refreshing to have options and EP five has left us with plenty that sparkle.

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Yumi Zouma stick to their winning file-sharing formula on the third and final entry in their career-spanning EP trilogy.

By Bryan Kress

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Yumi Zouma stick to their winning file-sharing formula on the third and final entry in their career-spanning EP trilogy, dropping Friday (Sept. 28) via Cascine. Below,  Billboard  has an exclusive first listen of the EP today (Sept. 25).

The New Zealand band — composed of Charlie Ryder, Christie Simpson, Josh Burgess and Olivia Campion — have largely worked separately since their debut EP I in 2014, but years of touring and an abundance of cross-continent flights have allowed the group to refine their unique collaborative process. EP III throws all of that out with a return to basics incited by a completed tour and cleared label slate following the release of their sophomore album Willowbank in 2017, along with a refreshed appreciation for the freedom of individual, remote contributions.

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“For the first time we were an unsigned band and it made us think more outside of the box,” Burgess tells Billboard . “When we started thinking about making more music, an album seemed overwhelming and frankly, boring…we all got excited at the prospect of working quickly and without a huge amount of thought into how [a song] fits into a longer format.”

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The group pored over 150-plus demos that went as far as back as 2013 when the band formed, and though they salvaged bits and pieces of ideas for the new set, the majority of the EP is completely fresh material. By revisiting their past work and trying the old way of things with some new tricks, the band has recaptured the magic while pushing themselves forward.

“With Willowbank and [debut album] Yoncalla to some degree, we spent a lot of time together writing and recording. This contrasted the first two EPs, where 75 percent of the time, we were spread apart making those songs,” Burgess explains. “ EP III is a return to that format, and reminded us of that workflow which certainly has its advantages and disadvantages.”

Burgess singles out the EP’s first two singles “In Camera” and “Crush (It’s Late, Just Stay)” as examples of being able to “go a bit more bombastic because you’re only thinking about how a song relates to 3-4 others versus a whole album.”

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Though the two standout tracks certainly suggest a bigger sound for the group, the unrestrained and democratic approach creates a cohesion for the brisk set that fits comfortably with the band’s nimble retro-indie pop sound.

“Hopefully it’s just more fun music that people connect with,” Burgess offers. “I understand that there is a lot to say in 2018 and I have a lot of respect for people that can do that via their lyrics, but that’s not really who we are as people. We’re feeling and sharing the same frustrations and a song like ‘Crush,’ for me at least, was an outlet to a lot of energy inside of me.”

EP III may serve as a notable conclusion to this era of Yumi Zouma, but it suggests the beginning of something much bigger.

Check out EP III below exclusively on Billboard .

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