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Yea-Ming and The Rumors’ So, Bird… is Both Familiar and Revelatory

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There are strong strains of counterculture-era California folk in ‘So, Bird…,’ but also sumptuous, updated sonics. There is pained memory and willed forgetting, and a beautifully strained tug-of-war between. First impressions like glue. Spotting somebody’s funky get-up, one wonders if the rest of her closet reflects comparable levels of fineness-in-finery. Hooting and cackling at a [...]

California Indie-Folksters Yea-Ming and The Rumours Return with Advance Single from Sophomore LP

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It’s the plain singing punctuated by bursts of plaintive wailing. It’s the bare instrumentation that’s never barren. It’s skippy jangle crossed with snappy jingle. It’s Yea-Ming and The Rumours in top form. Only love can break your heart, Neil Young famously crowed. Written during his Laurel Canyon years, the atmosphere was then rife with a [...]