Track Listing

1. Ending With You
2. I'll Hit The Breaks
3. Again With Subtitles
4. The Subtleties That Count
5. We Aim
6. What's The Matter?
7. In Two, The Weakly
8. Almost In That Category
9. Good Like That
10. Cannot See Straight
11. It's Not The Same
12. Longtime

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #79066 in Music
• Released on: 2006-11-28
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Album Description
Unlikely places can sometimes breed unlikely music. Joe Corrales is from Texas, a place synonymous with country and western, slide guitar, classic rock and good ol' boys. Yet his debut as Yppah (pronounced "Yippah") draws on a cultural heritage that took in My Bloody Valentine alongside hip hop and has resulted in a unique sensibility.

Corrales early teen years were spent playing guitar and bass in rock bands, his later ones as a scratch DJ who mixed hip hop and house in club sets, produced weird mashups (Outkast v Ted Nugent anybody?) and was part of a turnttablist group called The Truth.

However, when he sat down to write "You Are Beautiful At All Times" his aim was to combine all these influences and it's an aim he has achieved with some aplomb. Mixing in guitars shoved through massive delays, keyboards and loops sampled from real drums, Corrales has created intricate, multi-layered soundscapes of real beauty, which also have the catchy, insistent hooks of the music of his childhood.

Corrales' music has a certain air of melancholy to it and perhaps the wide open spaces of Texas have influenced the airiness of his tunes, the feeling that you are looking down onto tiny people from high in the sky. Certainly, he manages to make his modesty into something epic.

Customer Reviews

Whoah!
Absolutely brilliant album! Mix of Squarepusher-esque drum samples with shoegazer guitar and dub production. Soooo good.

Buy this album!!!
I don't write a whole lot of reviews, but sometimes I feel an album is good enough that I have to, so here goes...This is an astonishing debut from Ninja Tune's newest signee, producer Joe Corrales a.k.a. Yppah, from Texas of all places! Seriously though, this is an impressive blend of electro beats and post-rock guitar & bass. The ringing, delayed guitars and tinges of synth conjure up images of a starlit night in the wide open spaces of the southwest, but the choppy, looping beats bring an urban, post-modern feel. What a beautiful paradox! The CD is kind of hard to find right now, but do whatever you can to buy it!

Ninja Tunes releases another great album
Sounds like: Thrill Jockey gone hip hop (without the rapping)laced with heavy shoe-gaze tones. Somber and beautiful all into one great CD.