★★★★★
According to the press notes, Eighty One, the third offering by Joe Corrales Jr. (aka Yppah, pronounced "yippah"), was inspired by regular surfing trips to Galveston, TX and Long Beach, CA, respectively, and it's drenched in a balmy, tropical aura. Don't mistake joy for frivolity though, as the styles that informed Corrales's previous two releases - from shoegaze to hip-hop and electronica - are still present, but Eighty One is his most cohesive effort to date...
- exclaim.ca
2012-04-26
★★★★★
Summary: Eighty One could be the electronica record this premature summer has been shouting out for. Last week marked the arrival of British Summer Time, an event that's usually only significant for creating a 60 million-strong groan about a lost hour of sleep, but this year British Summer Time has done something unheard of: introduce summer time in Britain...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Summary: Eighty One could be the electronica record this premature summer has been shouting out for. Last week marked the arrival of British Summer Time, an event that's usually only significant for creating a 60 million-strong groan about a lost hour of sleep, but this year British Summer Time has done something unheard of: introduce summer time in Britain...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2012-04-05
★★★★★
Yppah's third album proper isn't the kind we hear too much of at the moment. Mixing shoegazy guitars, electronic layers and sound effects with a pillar of hip hop-influenced rhythms, Eighty One is a creation that is both epic and injected with the signature warmth that artists from the southern, coastal slice of the USA so adeptly seem to master...
- www.musicomh.com
2012-04-02
★★★★★
Joe Corrales Jr's 2009 album, They Know What Ghost Know, displayed a maturing and deepening of the sound presented on his occasionally brilliant but ultimately patchy debut, You Are Beautiful at All Times. Now with Eighty One, the Texan's third outing as Yppah (pronounced 'yippah'), that early promise seems to have fully come to fruition. Named after Corrales' year of birth, Eighty One shares the same references, from shoegaze to hip hop and electronica, that peppered his previous releases...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2012-04-02
★★★★★
The third album from the Long Beach, CA-via-Texas producer/multi-instrumentalist Yppah (aka Joe Corrales Jr.) is a transportive blend of ethereal shoegaze, moody '60s psych-rock, downtempo electronic, atmospheric post-rock and cosmic soul, with a warm, lush sound featuring shimmering guitars, twinkling synths, oceanic electronic textures, playful hip hop beats and nostalgic melodies along with occasional haunting guest vocals and violin from Seattle's Anomie Belle.
- kexp.org
2012-03-26
★★★★★
Yppah is Texan-born producer, turntablist and multi-instrumentalist Joe Corrales, and this is his 11-track debut. From the introductory strains of Ending With You's synthesized time-machine cash register noises to the last backwards chorus of Longtime, Yppah crafts himself a distinctly pleasant, lo-fi and melody-based sound...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
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. 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...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
The unfair thing with this review, and perhaps most reviews, is name-checking. But it's almost impossible not to; so here we go... on young Ninja Tune artist Yppah's second full length we have a lot of My Bloody Valentine wall of noise; a large dollop of breaks ala DJ Shadow; synthesisers - M83; psychedelics - The Doors (it may not be unfeasible that Yppah shook the ghostly hand of Jim Morrison in some higher state while making They Know What Ghost Know's title track)...
- drownedinsound.com
2009-08-29
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