Joe Corrales, Jr. aka Yppah (pronounced Yippah) is back. The young Mexican-American from Texas debuted on Ninja Tune in 2006 with his album, You Are Beautiful At all Times, and now releases his sophomore effort, They Know What Ghost Know.
Fashioning a rockier sound than last time out, the album draws on a cultural heritage that took in My Bloody Valentine alongside hip hop and which is heavily influenced by various forms of electronic music, psychedelic soul and rock.
Opening track -Son Saves The Rest- is wall-of-noise guitar pummeller. Gumball Machine Weekend sounds like southern-fried Go! Team with more soul. Playing With Fireworks somehow reminds you of the way you felt stuck between childhood and the adult world, not a million miles from instrumental tracks from the Phantom Band. Shutter Speed is nostalgia psyched into a memorable tune. Title track --They Know What Ghost Know-- is West Coast rock reimagined as trance-rite, a spooky, echo-heavy drum-roll-filled set of repetitions and overlaps that builds into a tune which DJ Shadow in his heyday might have dreamed of making. Sun Flower Sun Kissed takes the doomy grey skies of MBV and gives them a Texan make-over. Bobbie Joe Wilson channels the Dust Brothers and proves Yppah hasn't lost his love of hip hop. Corrales build moods through a combination of melody, rhythm and sonics and if those moods are mainly melancholy, they're also ecstatic.
After a series of shows last year from SXSW to Japan, there's a real feeling that Joe Corrales is ready to step up into the big league. The album has that feel to it --that it has been made under huge skies, that it's possible to make music which is epic and intimate all at once. It's beguiling and beautiful and makes you a little giddy, too.
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