Tune-Yards’ one-woman show

Merrill Garbus examines her life, with rubbery rhythms and jubilant vocals

BARRY DIVOLA

Tune-Yards I can feel you creep into my private life 4AD/Remote Control ★★★★ Sometimes Tune-Yards’ music sounds like field hollers from the American south in the 1940s. Sometimes it sounds like troupes of South African schoolgirls doing skipping chants. Sometimes it sounds like an early Eighties New York downtown mash-up of electro, disco and art-pop. The fact it’s all the work of one white thirty-something woman, who can translate all the above onstage with just a bass player for company, speaks to the genius of Merrill Garbus. On her fourth album, Garbus pulls back the curtain a crack to allow the listener a peak into how she builds these songs. There’s the deliberately skew-iff piano chord that’s repeated throughout “Heart Attack” until its part of the fabric of the song,…

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Rolling Stone Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2018

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