Yumi Zouma have announced the details of their fourth album ‘Present Tense’, set for release on 18th March.
“This is our fourth album, so we wanted to pivot slightly, create more extreme versions of songs,” the band’s Charlie Ryder explains. “Working with other artists helped with that and took us far outside of our normal comfort zone.”
“The lyrics on these songs feel like premonitions, in some regards,” adds lead singer/keyboardist Christie Simpson. “So much has changed for us, both personally and as a band, that things I wrote because the words sounded good together now speak to me in ways I didn’t anticipate.”
The news comes alongside a new single, ‘The Eyes Of Our Love’. Speaking about the track, Charlie reveals: “Recorded at 204bpm, ‘In The Eyes Of Our Love’ is a rip-roaring belter of a track and the fastest song we’ve ever written. What started out as an homage to Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift ended up as a love song set against a backdrop of torture and insurrection stoked by the Nixon administration, so if you like songs with two bridges and strong socialist leanings, then ‘In The Eyes Of Our Love’ could be the track for you!”
‘Present Tense’ Tracklisting:
- Give It Hell
- Mona Lisa
- If I Had The Heart For Chasing
- Where The Light Used To Lay
- Razorblade
- In The Eyes Of Our Love
- Of Me And You
- Honestly, It’s Fine
- Haunt
- Astral Projection
