The band lurched in a more mechanized, electronic direction on CLVB ZVKVNFT, similarly a conceptual opus but one with a more rigidly synchronized meter and harder, metallic edge. While their 2010 EP FLOW and debut album SPORTS were tagged with genre labels like “math rock” and “experimental pop,” both (but especially SPORTS) came with carefully articulated conceptual baggage, reflected in the lyrics and album design. And they’ve gotten way more into house music.ĪI (Love) is a stark but not totally unexpected departure for a band that’s made a career out of stark but not totally unexpected departures. They dropped their English name, now preferring to use the Pinyin Romanization of their Chinese name, YADAE (鸭打鹅).
They bid adieu to longtime drummer Jean Baptiste Terpreau, making the band a two-piece of founding members Han Han (aka Gooooose) and Wu Shanmin (aka 33EMYBW). Drop us a line if you have a suggestion.Ī lot’s happened since Duck Fight Goose, leading lights of Shanghai’s underground rock scene for the last decade, released their second studio album CLVB ZVKVNFT in 2016. Yin (音, “music”) is a weekly RADII column that looks at Chinese songs spanning hip hop to folk to modern experimental, and everything in between.
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