Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind (Japanese Edition) (2020)

Posted By: delpotro

Date: June 2, 2020

Safe in the Hands of Love marked the vanguard arrival of Yves Tumor. Unclassified and unannounced, the release received widespread acclaim and cemented itself as a landmark in the hallowed Warp catalog. The experimentalist voiced a new generation, creating a surreal pop stratosphere for outsiders and the masses alike. Heaven To A Tortured Mind is the next step in that searing trajectory. A mindfully crafted studio album, gracefully blending genre into alternative bliss. Effortless and inspired, Heaven To A Tortured Mind is an album for lovers, losers and the unconcerned.

Few projects at the forefront of contemporary art truly push visceral sonic boundaries in the way that Yves Tumor does. With an arc that impartially sits between psych-rock and modern pop, comparisons only serve as limitations intended to define that which cannot be. Yves Tumor melds restraint and chaos; diluting reality by giving meaning to the abstract and allowing for dissonance to be seen and heard as harmony.

Heaven To A Tortured Mind - written and composed by Yves Tumor and produced by Yves Tumor and Justin Raisen (Sky Ferreira, Ariel Pink, Charli XCX)- marks the fourth official full-length release from Yves Tumor. Piercing through contradiction, redefining expression through song, and catapulting Yves Tumor into the next phase of illusion and evolution. Heaven To A Tortured Mind finds its place in music history as a collection of anthems for a generation.

AllMusic Review by Heather Phares
At one point on Heaven to a Tortured Mind, Yves Tumor sings "I can be anything." It may be the most definitive statement from an artist who resists boundaries as thoroughly, and creatively, as Tumor does. Since 2015, they've established themself as an unparalleled musical chameleon, changing their sound and perspective with each release and often within a single track. On 2016's soulful collage Serpent Music and the kaleidoscopic pop of 2018's Safe in the Hands of Love, the leaps Tumor made were huge. On Heaven to a Tortured Mind, they're smaller, but just as profound. This time, Tumor unites all the sounds they explored on their previous work into funky, futuristic, iridescent R&B pop that's more cohesive and immediate than anything they've done before. At this point, consistency is the most surprising move they could make, and Heaven's sonic clarity is almost as startling. Starting with "Gospel for a New Century"'s hard-edged fanfares, Tumor comes in louder and clearer than ever before. When they briefly revisit the noisy atmospheres that dominated their earlier releases, as on the skyrocketing distortion of "Medicine Burn" or the static-laden "Folie Imposee," it only underscores how far they've moved from that aesthetic on the rest of the album. This cleaner sound also lets the individual elements of Tumor's brilliance shine. Their voice is more prominent than ever, along with the vocals of their collaborators, all of whom help make sensuality – the main constant in Tumor's work since Serpent Music – the focus of Heaven to a Tortured Mind. The standout "Kerosene," a duet with singer/songwriter Diana Gordon that's equally reminiscent of Ariel Pink and Childish Gambino, lives up to its combustive title. On "Romanticist" and "Dream Palette," they recruit Kelsey Lu and Sunflower Bean's Julia Cumming to revel in the tender and turbulent extremes of new love. Similarly, their bass, the first instrument they learned how to play, provides an impressively serpentine spine for the drifting "Strawberry Privilege" as well as "Identity Trade"'s brassy psych-funk incantation. Frequently, the album feels like a love letter to the vintage soul Tumor grew up hearing, whether on the radiant "Super Stars" or the shadowy, mystical finale, "A Greater Love." Previously, Tumor has stated that they want to make songs listeners need to play. They more than achieve that on Heaven to a Tortured Mind, an album that suggests the easiest way to define Tumor is as an artist who consistently outdoes themself.

Tracklist:
1. Gospel For a New Century (03:18)
2. Medicine Burn (04:04)
3. Identity Trade (01:59)
4. Kerosene! (05:05)
5. Hasdallen Lights (02:07)
6. Romanticist (01:46)
7. Dream Palette (02:55)
8. Super Stars (03:05)
9. Folie Imposée (03:05)
10. Strawberry Privilege (03:52)
11. Asteroid Blues (02:02)
12. A Greater Love (03:04)
13. Folie Simultanée (03:27)

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