Album Info
| Artist: | Yves Tumor |
| Album: | Heaven To A Tortured Mind |
| Released: | Europe, 2020 |
Tracklist:
| A1 | Gospel For A New Century | 3:18 |
| A2 | Medicine Burn | 4:04 |
| A3 | Identity Trade | 1:59 |
| A4 | Kerosene! | 5:05 |
| A5 | Hasdallen Lights | 2:07 |
| B1 | Romanticist | 1:46 |
| B2 | Dream Palette | 2:55 |
| B3 | Super Stars | 3:05 |
| B4 | Folie Imposée | 3:05 |
| B5 | Strawberry Privilege | 3:52 |
| B6 | Asteroid Blues | 2:02 |
| B7 | A Greater Love | 3:04 |
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Description
Some records feel like a turning point the second the needle hits. Heaven To A Tortured Mind is one of those, the moment Yves Tumor turned swagger into an instrument and made a guitar record that still felt thrillingly strange. Released in April 2020 through Warp, it arrived right when we needed a bit of theatre, a spark of danger, something glamorous that didn’t forget its weirdo roots. Sean Bowie had already proven they could bend noise and ambience into gripping shapes, but here the shapes strut.
Gospel For A New Century kicks the door in with brassy blasts and a rhythm section that moves like a nightclub mirror ball. It is the kind of opener that redefines the space around it, gritty yet polished, and carried by a vocal that half-snarls, half-serenades. The song came with a delirious clip directed by Isamaya Ffrench, and that visual language sticks to the music, all horns and heat and satin. If you are coming from older Yves Tumor albums on vinyl, the shock is not that it rocks, but how confidently it does so.
Kerosene! is the showstopper, a smouldering duet with Diana Gordon that feels like a slow dance with sparks underfoot. The guitars bend and squeal, the drums stay unbothered, and the voices circle each other with a desire that is both cinematic and a bit poisonous. It is romantic in the way glam has always been romantic, which is to say it recognises the storm gathering behind the curtain. Gordon’s presence is perfect, and the way the song builds to that final rush is the kind of thing that made so many listeners fall hard for this era of Yves Tumor.
The middle stretch loosens the collar without losing the pulse. Romanticist sweeps in with smoky chords and overlapping voices, and before you have time to check the
