Yumi Zouma

dreampop

Het Nieuw-Zeelandse Yumi Zouma schrijft dromerige indiepop ergens in het verlengde van Jay Som, Middle Kids, Hatchie en Soccer Mommy. Je hoort daarnaast de klassieke sprankelingen van Fleetwood Mac tijdens hun gelauwerde eighties-tijdperk. Je kunt je binnen deze muziek een fonkelende zeespiegel op de heetste dag van de zomer voorstellen. Ieder liedje klinkt verzorgd qua instrumentatie, verslavend qua melodie, en straalt een bepaalde rust uit: alsof de gedachtenspinsels van Christie Simpsons vanzelf uit de pen rollen. Yumi Zouma is het schoolvoorbeeld van hoe dreampop moet klinken.

New Zealand’s Yumi Zouma writes sun-kissed indie pop somewhere along the lines of Jay Som, Middle Kids, Hatchie and Soccer Mommy. You’ll also hear the classic sparkles of Fleetwood Mac during their acclaimed eighties era. Within this music you can imagine a twinkling seashore on the hottest day of summer. Each song sounds crisp in terms of instrumentation, addictive in terms of melody, and exudes a certain tranquility: as if the words of Christie Simpsons were rolling out of her pen all by themselves. Yumi Zouma are the textbook example of how dreampop should sound.

From

Christchurch, New Zealand

Band

Christie Simpson
Josh Burgess
Charlie Ryder
Olivia Campion

Media

“Their music is emblematic of many 2010s trends but in another sense is timeless: dreamy, wispy Balearic pop, lighter than air yet heavy with feeling. It is the fizz bubbling in your seltzer, the mist hanging over the sea, the longing ache lingering at the edges of memory. It is, in the parlance of their formative era, a big mood.” – Stereogum