Eclectic London quintet Y have a video for Duplicate, a track from their Enter EP: "They are a hybrid of Nine Inch Nails, the Dresden Dolls and Roxy Music, which should not work, but it does. While most bands would shy away from adding yet another layer, they keep stacking them up to end up with a quivering tower of sound."
HCTF review of Enter
Eclectic London quintet Y serve a mix of post-punk, vaudeville and leftfield dance pop on their Enter EP. They are a hybrid of Nine Inch Nails, the Dresden Dolls and Roxy Music, which should not work, but it does. While most bands would shy away from adding yet another layer, they keep stacking them up to end up with a quivering tower of sound.
Saxophone and rock guitar are trying to command the sportlights, but the vocals, bass and synths are not having it, elbowing their way in to create a groundswell of jawdropping noise. It's OK to go what-the-fuck and press play again to try to make sense of it.
Eclectic London quintet Y try their hands at post-punk with their new single May, contemplating the rise of something particularly nasty. Dark pop meets the Sisters of Mercy in a heavily orchestrated track with a howling guitar as the icing on the cake. They are a band who never write the same song twice, cherrypicking from any genre that tickles their fancy.
London quintet Y keep it up with their "put in a blender" and press "rec" approach on their new single Skipper. Post-punk, ska, pop on top of a stuttering, highly effective backbeat topped of by a sax part that is part Roxy Music and part Madness.
Navigating uncharted waters in the studio must have been a lot of fun. It may sound familiar sometimes, but not quite, but for fuck's sake don't overanalyze, but enjoy as such.
At first it may seem that genre-bending London quintet Y will go for a tasty slice of blues on their new single Ladies Who. Is that a slight rumble of a freight train in the distance? Well, there is harmonica, before the band takes a sharp left to explore art-rock territory, with Sophie Coppin adding killer vocals for the story about a woman who is not afraid to take matters into her own hands.
If they can keep this up these musicians of Fat White Family, Meatraffle and Pregoblin will have to rethink the status of what started as a side-project born out boredom during the pandemic.
Genre-bending London quintet Y added a seasoning of ska brass to their new single Hate. The band calls it a love song - well there is a thin between the two after all - and dancing the night away to feel better is a cure that is actually fun. Adam Brennan and Sophie Coppin navigate the band members through choppy waters and shifting currents, so there is plenty to enjoy for those who shy away from going all out.
London quintet Y have made a video for their Why single: "a fast as fuck banger that could bring back pogoing as the dance style of choice. The band started more or less as a joke, when Adam Brennan and Sophie Coppin were bored beyond belief during the pandemic and dreamed up this project to be unleashed when things would be back to normal."
London quintet Y put all the genres they liked in a blender. The result: Why, a fast as fuck banger that could bring back pogoing as the dance style of choice. The band started more or less as a joke, when Adam Brennan and Sophie Coppin were bored beyond belief during the pandemic and dreamed up this project to be unleashed when things would be back to normal.
With members of Fat White Family, Meatraffle and Pregoblin they know what it takes to get a rise out of people and since the lyrics consist of just one word - yes, that one - everybody can sing along.
