Release Date: May 08th 2026. Record Label: Self Released. Formats: CD/DD
Yoyo Club 66 - Tracklisting
1.Horst 04:00
2.The Green Angel 02:15
3.Heroes & Villains 04:45
4.When The Seagulls 03:57
Members
Robokopf: Cigar Box Guitar, Keyboards, Mellotron,Banjo.
Gino Goal : Drums & Percussion.
Review
Yoyo Club 66 is a minimal and experimental Post-Rock/Post-Metal collective whose music won’t be for everyone as they think outside of the box on how to deliver their music. Though, they do engineer some intriguing and highly atmospheric soundscapes that fully move into both sides of the Post-Rock and Post-metal movement. There’s an uneasy and eerie attitude with the gloomy psychedelic and hollow chants that appear within the opening track of Horst.
There are elements of PELICAN, RUSSIAN CIRCLES and MONO appearing within this EP with a distorted attitude allowing the music to never be straightforward though Yoyo Club 66 play some epic instrumental passages throughout the EP..
Things take a more straight forward Post-Metal turn within the excellent second track The Green Angel which fully dives into the heavy instrumental surroundings with sludgy rhythms and full on dynamics allowing that rustic and organic sound merge into a different Psychedelic energy. This is a song that may have sounded better with vocals but you can’t deny how superbly powerful the track is with Yoyo Club 66 fully on fire on this track alone.
The other two tracks of Heroes & Villains and When The Seagulls are mostly Post-Rock driven with small amounts of Electronica, Alt Metal and Post-Metal themes moving the music into a different direction. The sound is quite fractured but there’s a sense of calm to Yoyo Club 66’s mission which can be quite awkward at times but emotionally fulfilling.
This EP is quite abstract but still manages to deliver heavy and harsh Post-Metal grooves from start to finish. The EP could have been slightly longer as the record is too short. I wanted to hear Yoyo Club 66 explore that rustic side to their music even further whilst also delivering more massive sounding instrumental passages but maybe we can expect that on future releases.
Other than that, Yoyo Club 66 debut EP is an exciting and intriguing prospect for the Post-Rock / Post-Metal community to fully lend their support.
Words by Steve Howe
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