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Yumi Zouma: No Love Lost to Kindness review – New Zealand dream-poppers’ reinvention doesn’t go far enough
['Katie Hawthorne']
The Guardian
Yumi Zouma are breaking up with dream pop.
After a decade together, the New Zealand four-piece have honed an airy, lush, lightly melancholic sound – but now they want change.
“More extreme everything, more boldness,” guitarist Charlie Ryder has said of fifth record No Love Lost to Kindness, written during the band’s “most friction-filled creative period” to date.
Without the usual reverb, Simpson’s vocals are striking: “I’m leaving you no matter what, turning myself into dust,” she vows, gothic and ghostly.
Far from a dramatic reinvention, this is Yumi Zouma remaking themselves in real time.