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Yellow splits off into its own lane thanks in part to Thackrayâs overarching lysergic bliss. She says she approached the record âby trying to simulate a life-changing psychedelic experience,â which explains a lot:
Yellow is fascinating and profoundly befuddling, a voyage deep into nowhere in particular. Just when you think youâve got your bearingsâwhen youâve got âSunâ pegged as a kind of disco number, for exampleâThackray throws in an impetuous chord progression or rhythmical stutter to pull the ground from under your feet.
The albumâs other distinguishing characteristic comes in its use of low-end brass and, in particular, the liberal employment of the sousaphone. Its sonorous parp comes across like a trad jazz send-up of modern producersâ obsession with electronic sub-bass. As a teenager in Yorkshire, Thackray was the principal trumpeter in her local brass band, a musical tradition often associated with the North of E
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