TEAM RNS PRESENTS

LABEL: Velocette Records

RIPPER: Team RNS

0hr 44min total- 64.9mb

RELEASE DATE: 2003-09-09
RIP DATE: 2003-07-03

01 A Man Like Me                  4:29

03 You're Only King Once          3:10
04 My Side Of The City            3:27

06 Me And Jesus Dont Talk Anymore 4:51
07 Fooled With The Wrong Guy      4:23
08 Your Mother Loves You Son      3:04
09 Don't Forget To Breathe        3:59
10 Wipe Those Prints And Run      7:34

Here's the beautiful bummer.  The
sweetest melancholy that permeated
2001's highly lauded THE COAST IS NEVER
CLEAR is still here, only less sweet and
much darker.  Album opener "A Man Like
Me" starts with punches of the darkest
Beatlesque minor chords and then
soaringly begs "Try wasting all yours
days on a man like me.. a man gone
wrong".  Plaintive, mournful and
achingly beautiful.  These qualities
continue throughout YOKO but all mixed
hints of optimisn, and all delivered in
different moodss and modes from seething
urgency to hazed atmospherics.
Musicall, there's no easy pigeonhole
here, Beatles and Beach Boys are easy
and lazy reference points (along with
Big Star and Wilco), but Beulah's YOKO is
what is dark, smart west coast pop.  Due