For Those About To Pop!. The Yum Yums

For Those About To Pop! sounds like the songs are with me since forever and in a way they are. The Yum Yums are inspired by music from an era spanning roughly a decade and a half from 1964 to 1979 and a few years in the mid 90s when Green Day and The Offspring both broke to the mainstream of rock with their supertight punkrock songs.

The more cynical among you might now sneer that this is a fully redundant album. Wrong! For Those About To Pop! presents a half hour of great music that brings a smile to my face of the broadest of kinds. So what makes this album so special?

For starters The Yum Yums unleash a host of great pop tunes on the world. Pop tunes of the kind that take one listen session to be able to sing along to. Everything is done just right. From The Beach Boys to Blondie can be found here. Just like the best songs of those two bands the songs on For Those About To Pop! demand immediate attention. I just want to listen and undergo the songs fully. Be immersed by them and become one with them.

The tightness of the songs is the second quality. The band manages to be supertight without losing the strong melodies for a second. The result is a punky pop that is extremely inviting and enticing. Next up is the harmony singing that is impeccable. Not as complex as Brian Wilson's arrangements but extremely efficient, inviting singing along to.

The album was six years in the making and the result is like it. The band may have lost itself for a while in the myriad details on For Those About To Pop!, it made all the right choices where the final versions are concerned. Just listen to a track like 'Summertime Pop' and be convinced. Classic powerpop, bubblegum, a rocking guitar solo and a The Beatles end chord. At least half of the songs on For Those About To Pop! deserve to be hits, starting with the title song opening the album. Unfortunately in an alternate universe these days.

Norway has delivered another band to follow in the future. As a few of my favourite Norwegian bands are no longer around it is welcome and timely. It's the kind of album that makes me forget all the worries that may come tomorrow and focus exclusively on the here and now. For Those About To Pop! is a title this album deserves to proudly wear. This is pop music of the highest quality and could cause every champagne bottle to uncork spontaneously. Pop indeed.

Wo.

You can listen to and order For Those About To Pop! here:

https://rumbarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/for-those-about-to-pop


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