Stream: Yoncalla - Yumi Zouma

At last the long wait is pretty much over... Yumi Houma's debut full length album Yoncalla drops on Friday, and the best part is you don't even have to wait until then to hear it, because the band have just unveiled the full thing via a full album stream on Hype Machine and you can check it out in full via the embedded player below.

I've been listening to Yoncalla for a couple of weeks and it is everything I'd hoped for - gorgeously intimate and beautifully soft. Moving from recording over long distance to getting together in one place has only emphasised this, and I can't help but feel like this is one of my favourite releases in what is already shaping up to be a vintage year for the long play format.

Stream: Wrong - GIUNGLA

There's a boatload of foreboding dread and sheer frustration bundled up in Wrong, the new track from Italian musician GIUNGLA. Clipped synths punctuate artist Emanuela Drei's admonishment of the subject of her song - a self-righteous and always-right individual - as she creates a pyre on which to burn down whatever relationship they had. "Why do I even bother? Why do I even love her?" she growls, before following up with the couplet from which the track borrows its name, "even you, even you, even you, sometimes you’re wrong."

Wrong is taken from GIUNGLA's forthcoming EP Camo, out now on Factory Flaws.

"Camo EP" out May 20th on Factory Flaws. Info & Pre-Order: bit.ly/GIUNGLA-preorder Written and performed by Emanuela Drei Produced, recorded and mixed by Federico Dragogna in Milan, Italy Mastered by Robert Whiteley at Whitewood Recording Studio in Liverpool, UK Photo by Giulia Mazza (www.giuliamazza.com) © 2016 Factory Flaws

Stream: Illuminate - Wildes

Just three months on from sharing her debut track Bare West London musician Wildes is back with Illuminate, a staggering moment of dramatic minimalism. In her own words the 19-year-old artist, real name Ella Walker, describes the track: 

"Illuminate is a reflection on our human error. It's about recognising (or illuminating) the qualities that make us human, but can also lead to our downfall. The song came from the idea that we will do anything - whether it be good or incredibly dangerous - for the people we love and the causes we believe in."

Check out Illuminate below.

Listen to the perfectly crafted, delicate perfection of Illuminate by WILDES. "'Illuminate' isi a reflection on our human error” explains WILDES, continuing "It's about recognising (or illuminating) the qualities that make us human, but can also lead to our downfall. The song came from the idea that we will do anything - whether it be good or incredibly dangerous - for the people we love and the causes we believe in. It was only three months previous that West London’s WILDES uploaded her debut cut “Bare” which has so far caught the attention of tastemaker radio & blogging media, including Disco Naiveté who labelled her “so special.” The 19 year old, known to her friends and family as Ella Walker, started gigging when she was 15 after being exposed to her father’s extensive guitar collection. That early exposure, along with inspiration from the works of Oscar Wilde, began shaping what you here today. Remind yourself of her debut track Bare below:

Stream: Extraordinary - Bad Wave

Bad Wave was started by friends Tucker Tota and Patrick Hart as an escape from the 20-something trappings of that moment where adulthood starts to become real.

Channeling MGMT, Cut Copy and the Postal Service, Extraordinary delivers emo-alt-pop full of details - layering complex production with snatches of dreams to create something infectious and heartfelt. There is a sweetness to the surface here, but it feels like something a little more sinister lurks beneath...

Album Review: The Yellow Collection - Eskimo Recordings

BlackPlastic.co.uk regulars Eskimo are back with their latest compilation in their ongoing series, this one labelled The Yellow Collection. Continuing the gentle progression of recent entries, this new suite of songs feels like a step into deeper, more dancefloor tuned sounds.

Opening with Atella's gorgeous Mechanical Sparrow, as premiered on BlackPlastic.co.uk earlier this year, The Yellow Collection doesn't so much as announce itself as it does slip into the room gently shimmering, softly unveiling its presence. Greece's NTEIBINT teams up with ex-Twin Shadow bassist Russ Manning (here as Rush Midnight) on the rhythmic dream pop of By Your Side. Du Tonc's We Can Hold On gets a previously unreleased dub by German label favourites Satin Jackets, continuing a journey that sees each track become a little deeper than the one before.

By track four things have descended into a far more minimal, dubby territory than you would readily expect from the Belgian label these days... MiddleSkyBoom's Slow With The Run is a deep and percussive number, random noises punctuating the bags of reverb-laden space that the track is successfully constructed around. We also get a punk-funk basslines on the acid-flecked psychedelia of Man Power's Fisky, a track that deviates little over it's tightly wound nine-minute length.

There is little let-up on The Yellow Collection until Horixon puncture the atmosphere with Colours, featuring Else Born - a dramatic disco record the offers just a slight reprieve before Vinny Villbass' The Itch dives straight back into tech-house territory, albeit with a Ballearic disco-tinged break that recalls Tangerine Dream. El Wild, from Mexico's Zombies In Miami, is like the paranoid heat of a midday sun in aural form - cyclical synthesisers, distorted bass and lots of reverb.

It is the penultimate track, James Curd & Turbotito's blissfully removed You Could Be Floating, before things let off properly. The vocal almost audibly sighing at the release of tension amidst slowly birthed electronics. And then Go March close things out with the wonky skate-math-funk of Rise, a muted and funny end to things.

The Yellow Collection is a considerably more wild release than we have had from Eskimo for some time with even their regular artists turning in something more experimental and introspective. It may jostle at the seams, but as tends to be the case the individual quality of everything here is consistently high... The Yellow Collection makes a fine soundtrack to getting baked in the hot summer sun.

The Yellow Collection is available through Eskimo Recordings tomorrow. Stream the track Fisky by Man Power in full below:

Out May 20, pre-order here! http://news.lnk.to/TYC Eskimo Recordings is back for its annual inspection of what propels the Belgian imprint’s throttle, exploring the boundaries of their house, disco and pop infusions in ‘The Yellow Collection’. Each artist has their own identity but Eskimo forms a package of seamless musical treats and forges yet new allies in the dreamy landscape of ‘The Yellow Collection’. More info http://maouris.co.uk/music/eskimo-recordings-presents-the-yellow-collection https://soundcloud.com/manpower-1 http://www.eskimorecordings.be/ https://www.facebook.com/eskimorecordings/ https://twitter.com/eskimorecords