Yoo Doo Right – From the Heights of Our Pastureland (Mothland) – We’ve been featuring You Doo Right and these pages as well as on our playlists quite a bit since late Summer, their latest album finally sneaked out a couple of weeks ago while we weren’t looking so here we are playing more catchup and well it is more of that rewarding expansive experimental rock thing that the trio known as Yoo Doo Right (from Montréal, Canada) do so well. That Beautiful wedding together of moderately noisy, kind of epic, sometimes melodic, sometimes laced with subtle guitar parts, sometimes effects-fuelled synthesizer soundscapes and deep bass grooves and patented percussive furies into sprawling thing. And yes, we needed a full stop there, their sound is kind of breathtaking, if you let it then it can sweep you up and yes this are rather rewarding, these are, at times, rather cathartic musical pieces.

They say they are drawing inspiration from post-rock, krautrock, shoegaze, classical music, electroacoustics, and musique concrète (or maybe someone said that on their behalf?) whatever it is in there, they do put it all together to create a rather unique sound. Okay, you could talk of Bark Psychosis or Godspeed You Black Emperor or maybe Can (surely it is no accident that they share a band name with an obscure Can track?), and yes we could say we hear lots of things that are maybe adjacent to what You Doo Right are doing but they do have something warmly unique about them, they do do right. They talk of the patience of a brewing storm, of the destruction, its aftermath an the problems that come with the rebuild. “Compassion for others and an attempt to lift all up”. They do lift, sometimes it is barbed and the edges are jagged but they do lift, they do take you with them, right now Ponder’s End is galloping away with us and that title track at the end is just magnificent…

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