Canadian Experimental Rock trio Yoo Doo Right announce new album “From The Heights Of Our Pastureland” for November 08, 2024 on Mothland. First video single “Spirit’s Heavy, But Not Overthrown” released.
Experimental rock trio Yoo Doo Right (Montréal, CA) wed noisy, melodic guitar parts, effects-laden synthesizer soundscapes, deep bass grooves and patented percussive furies into sprawling, cathartic musical pieces. Drawing inspiration from Post-Rock, Krautrock, Shoegaze, Classical Music, Electroacoustics and Musique Concrète, they create a unique sound.
New album “From The Heights Of Our Pastureland” is an expanding succession of highly dynamic musical epics intertwined with emotionally-charged sonic explorations. Whether carefully harvesting melodic soundscapes, repeating mantra-like arrangements with mechanical precision, digging unfathomably deep amidst abyssal electrical signals, or simply saturating reels with raucous abandon, Yoo Doo Right set out to further develop ideas they previously started exploring, in turn offering a third full-length that is darker, heavier, even more ominous than their previous works.
Yoo Doo Right comment: “We aimed for something cinematic, but not in the way of a score, rather something more experiential. We wanted to create music that could ignite drive in oneself, hopefully something of significance in and of itself. While we’re really not here to force understanding on people, for us the predominant themes are anxiety and patience, the storm of colonialism, the collapse of capitalism and the massive undertaking it is to rebuild with past mistakes taken into deep consideration. It draws a parallel between natural disaster and social disaster, the experience of watching an impending destructive storm roll in and watching an impending societal disaster unfold under our current colonial, capitalistic frameworks. Hopefully, folks can give themselves time to make some sensible thoughts of the album on their own.“
The band released the first single “Spirit’s Heavy, But Not Overthrown” stream it right here: https://orcd.co/spirit-s-heavy-but-not-overthrown
Opening with a lavish guitar droning into the unknown, “Spirit’s Heavy, But Not Overthrown” perfectly exemplifies Yoo Doo Right’s singular sonic palette and innate patience. The first single and opening track of their third full-length album “From The Heights Of Our Pastureland” also features trumpetist Francis Leduc-Bélanger (The Franklin Electric, Philippe Brach, Gabrielle Shonk), whose subtle depiction of the main theme gently questions an austere dialogue between the rhythm section, sinister chordal inversions and synthesized arpeggios. The piece later takes a hard left-hand turn into a shoegazing post-hardcoresque earth-shatterer before jarringly and abruptly fading into a supple sound collage.
The band comments: “The patience of a brewing storm. The destruction. Its aftermath. The problems that come with the rebuild. Compassion for others and an attempt to lift all up.”
Kristina Pedersen, director of the video, tells us: “The video, as the introduction track to the record, is a low, tuning buzz of anxiety and awe. It’s about how we watch the world fail spectacularly over and over again and then try, in the deepest most desperate place in our minds, to make it make sense. If we give our actions protocol and order, maybe we can give them meaning. If we witness, maybe we can affect. These are simple hopes.“
Watch the official video for “Spirit’s Heavy, But Not Overthrown, Part 1” through the YouTube player below:
Yoo Doo Right began writing “From The Heights Of Our Pastureland” while visiting a remote cabin near Saguenay, QC in the Winter of 2023. Snowed in, Cober, Masson and Talbot simply played for three days straight, archiving anything and everything, musing about “the storm of colonialism, the collapse of capitalism and the massive undertaking it is to rebuild with past mistakes taken into deep consideration,” and ultimately laying the groundwork for their third opus. Thus, the album draws deep inspiration from parallels drawn between natural phenomena ranging from bad weather to environmental disasters and the equally overwhelming force of our socio-political frameworks. Also compelled by the commodification of art, AI and algorithmic art, the trio later revisited the pieces, altering their initial compositions by way of element juxtaposition and extensive sound design. In embracing their penchant for sonic manipulation in all of its forms, the experimentalists achieved an uncanny equilibrium between unresolved tensions and soothing resolutions.
Stream “Spirit’s Heavy, But Not Overthrown, Part 2” through the YouTube player below:
To commit the album to tape, Yoo Doo Right chose producer Seth Manchester (Battles, Lightning Bolt, Lingua Ignota) at Machines with Magnets (Pawtucket, RI), before turning to Amar Lal (YlangYlang, Patio, Washer) at Macro Sound (Oakland, CA) for mastering duties, poised to unearth their best work to date. The resulting 42 minutes of Experimental Rock found on “From The Heights Of Our Pastureland” feel like a beautiful yet sinister sonic tempest, aptly showcasing the Montrealers’ artistic resolve and eerie creativity. Highly recommended for fans of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Big|Brave or METZ.
“From The Heights Of Our Pastureland” will be out November 8th, 2024 via Mothland on vinyl/ digital.
Pre-Order is live here: https://yoodooright.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-heights-of-our-pastureland
Tracklist:
01. Spirit’s Heavy, But Not Overthrown, Part 1
02. Spirit’s Heavy, But Not Overthrown, Part 2
03. Eager Glacier
04. Ponders End
05. Lost in the Overcast
06. From the Heights of Our Pastureland
