#2065 Yuck - Stranger Things

Yuck sounds lost, like a band that's lost its leader, which it has.

It flops and thrashes, working its way into Weezer-via-Surfer Blood crunch, through Built to Spill searching arpegiation, right out via shoegazey texture.

It's a band awash in problems whose only solution is to throw more guitars at it.

And isn't that rock and roll? Should we complain?

There's something pure about the boys' desperation, even as they pace well-worn paths - don't we all by this point want something familiar, do we ding 'em too hard for taking the path we would take?

And bonus points for doing it well, for calling out to the elders with full hearts and deft fingers. A fun, familiar, sympathetic listen - its weaknesses are all the ones we have to, how can we judge from the blue couch? 3.5/5