YPLL Retox

• 1 Modern Balls 01:22
• 2 Mature Science 01:49
• 3 Don't Fall In Love With Yourself 01:56
• 4 You Lost Me At 'It Wasn't My Fault' 00:58
• 5 Congratulations, You're Good Enough 01:41
• 6 Soviet Reunion 03:22
• 7 Greasy Psalms 01:59
• 8 I've Had It Up To Here, I'm Going To Prison 01:45
• 9 The Art Of Really Really Sucking 02:03
• 10 Biological Process Of Politics 00:44
• 11 Nose To Tail 01:27
• 12 Consider The Scab Already Picked 03:03
• Total Runtime 22:09

Info for YPLL

RETOX deliver a mission statement in 12 blistering tracks, the vast majority of them clocking in at two minutes or less. It's the type of rallying battle cry that inspires lingering and dormant primal urges and too-long-suppressed societal dissatisfaction in those who encounter its punk rock lineage and postmodern crash-and-ban.

Tracks like 'You Lost Me At 'It Wasn't My Fault,'' 'Greasy Palms' and 'Nose to Tail' are all filled with immediacy, urgency and restless energy, no matter which tempos RETOX happen to be pummeling in the songs. 'Congratulations You Are Good Enough' features guest guitar work guitarist Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, whose fretwork jumps aboard the careening song. The track builds to a punk rock crescendo with crystal clear production that amplifies every crackling nuance of the band's delivery.

Subcultural iconoclast and artistic visionary Justin Pearson is known in critical circles, amongst contemporaries across a wide variety of genres and to fans of incisively incendiary artistic expression around the world as one of the guiding lights of the groundbreaking outfit THE LOCUST. He resurfaced on record alongside gifted guitarist Michael Crain, dynamic bassist Thor Dickey and powerhouse drummer Brian Evans.

YPLL takes the ugly powder-keg promises of the band's impressive debut and ratchets up the proceedings exponentially, quickly given all who fall under its spell ample evidence as to why friends and contemporaries who have played with Public Image Ltd., Nine Inch Nails, Killing Joke, Man Is The Bastard, Swing Kids, and The VSS count themselves among the bands supporters and comrades. Otis 'O' Barthoulameu (Fluf, Olivelawn) coined a phrase for what RETOX have summoned forth: 'New Confrontation.'

Pearson himself offered this explanation for Retox's new album's creative combustibility: 'YPLL is something that four very odd humans placed together as a reflection of the art due to the worlds we live in.' Incredibly well thought-out, highly educated, impossibly practical, Retox's YPLL uses the power of the riff and the passion of the scream to conjure diatribes about the human condition. As Pearson notes, producer Chris Rakestraw, who has worked with heavy metal luminaries and postmodern hardcore heroes alike, 'Brought out aspects that the band has previously not honed in on, resulting in music for the future yet to come.'

'While writing YPLL, we were particularly focused on riffs and simpler song structures,' explains Crain. 'Not so much on the extras, such as effects and layers of guitar, but more on an actual song's flow. The guitar lines, kick drum, and snare are definitely driving the ideas home while the bass guitar is the glue holding it all together. And the vocals are telling each song's story. We really just wanted to keep it simple and make everything fun to listen to. Chris definitely honed in on this.'

Justin Pearson, vocals
Michael Crain, guitars
Thor Dickey, bass
Brian Evans, drums

Retox
2012 has come and gone and we’re still not dead yet. You can log into the 24/7 smiling face, pictures of your friends drunk and/or naked, click “like”. The gray-faced man in a suit who hates you is still alive too, but now he isn’t always wearing a suit, and he’s smiling, 24/7. He likes what you like, sees what you see, hears what you hear. So where does punk go when the underground’s all tidily arranged on a shared screen? Does it roll over and play dead? Shrug? Smile? There’s another man, this one with a microphone jammed halfway down his throat, cord coiled carotid-tight around his neck, dangling his body off the edge of the stage, screaming words that ache. Another is methodically destroying his guitar with his hands while his feet twist tail-ends of the signal into electro-rubber-echo nightmares. Two others are so precisely abusing a bass guitar and a drum kit at such a frenetic pace it’s hard to believe these sorry objects will last more than a few more seconds, but then you realize it’s over. A minute or so, tops. They stare out at you, maybe say thanks. Spit. Breathe. And then they begin again. This will happen for maybe fifteen minutes, altogether. You are not alone. The gray-faced man is not here. There’s the screen, but then there’s this. 2013, and punk is not dead. No more dead than the rest of us. (Zack Wentz)

Retox formed in Southern California in 2010 and released their debut album, Ugly Animals by Retox, via Ipecac in 2011. Their new album is titled YPLL by Retox and will be released by the Epitaph recording company, May 2013.

This album contains no booklet.