YAGOW - The Mess (Album Review)

 

Release Date: June 18th 2021. Record Label: Crazysane Records. Format: CD/DD/Vinyl

The Mess - Tracklisting

1.The Mess

2.Doomed To Fail

3.Rise & Shine 

4.Bloom 

5.Tres Calaveras

6.Eclectic Electric

7.Getting Through - is this where the magic happens? 

Members

Marc Schönwald (Drums, Percussion)

Kai Peifer (Bass)

Jan Werner (Vocals, Guitars, Drones)

Review

The Mess is the new album from Psych Space/Stoner Rockers YAGOW and is their first new album in 4 years and it’s a welcome return from the band. The album is quite mysterious and has the right amount of adventurous spirit to bring a more modern Stoner Rock environment with the band focusing more on Space Rock and Eastern based KrautRock grooves as well.

The opening song - The Mess - is almost 6 minutes of Experimental Psych Rock with YAGOW taking their time bringing a steady of Stoner Rock sounds but also treating the listener to a “Shoegaze” style of Space Rock both in the classical sense of the genre but allowing some modern twists being added towards the the final and heavier moments of the song.

Second song - Doomed To Fail - has an 80s Alternative/Indie Rock flair with the vocals being slightly confusing at first but that soon goes quickly when the music becomes more settled and YAGOW operate as a “SHAMANIC” entity and even bring in a more subdued style of Blues Rock to join the Psychedelic Freatout they have going on this song and the rest of the album.

The album is surreal and maybe hard to fully grasp at first but the music is first-rate with YAGOW playing their way through an assorted collection of different musical elements that fit superbly well within the compounds of Psych Rock and Stoner Rock.

YAGOW excels the most on this album with songs such as: Rise & Shine, Bloom, Electric Electric and Getting Through - Is This Where The Magic Happens. I enjoyed myself more on these tracks as YAGOW throw caution to the wind and just let their music do the talking and the album becomes slightly crazier and progressive in all the right places but with YAGOW in complete control. If you dig ALL THEM WITCHES then YAGOW take things slightly further with their Spaced Out Ideas and Experimental Sounds.

The Mess is an OTT and fantastical album that have no problems enticing new fans to their cause when this album is fully released.

Excellent and Highly Recommended.

Words by Steve Howe

Thanks to Crazysane Records for the promo.

The Mess will be available to buy on CD/DD/Vinyl via Crazysane Records from June 18th 2021.

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YAGOW Release New Song and New Video For "Rise & Shine"

Taken from YAGOW's upcoming album "The Mess" Out June 18 via Crazysane Records

"The otherworldly sounds of psychedelic space-rock outfit YAGOW take a new turn on their sophomore album "The Mess“. Combining the resonant riffing of The Black Angels, Kyuss, True Widow, Spacemen 3 with the celebrant atmosphere of Dead Skeletons "The Mess" presents an eclectic mix of psychedelic rock, kraut, garage rock and stoner rock."

Share/Watch "Rise & Shine" below:

Video by Keine Zeit Medien

Or from the following link:

http://smarturl.it/ygw

"The song is about the conscious or unconscious assumption of certain roles within our capitalist society that are expected from us and about how we have been socialised to adopt them and to perfect that facade. When Pascal and Tobi from Keine Zeit Medien came up with the idea to recreate a teleshopping program in the style of the 90s for the first video single and to have every band member present a trashy product, we knew that this would go perfectly with the message of “Rise & Shine!“ With the support of some friends who, in contrast to our amateur acting, turned out to be near-professional actors, the shoot was a lot of fun. And when Pascal, in his role as our hair model, said that he would be willing to do everything for the sake of art (“Mach mir einfach die Halbglatze!“), it was clear that the video was going to be killer! See for yourself!"