Big Thumbs EP

Yeah Yeah Noh, the newest additions to the Precious Recordings of London roster, are an ‘unpop group’ formed in Leicester in 1984. Creators of gold-dust LPs and EPs, three classic John Peel sessions and two more recent sets of Marc Riley session showstoppers. Originators of an entire Mojo genre: ‘Calor Gas psychedelia’. And stars of every Cherry Red C86-era comp released this millennium.

Best known for such classics as ‘Cottage Industry’ – in the NME indie chart for over a year – and Festive 50 smash ‘Bias Binding’, they were stalwarts of Manchester’s influential In Tape label. They even spawned a festival at the ICA: ‘John Peel Is Putting the Fun Back into Being Pretentious’ … echoing a lyric from ‘Bias Binding’.

But Yeah Yeah Noh soon shifted to a more psychedelic sound, as evidenced on the acclaimed Cutting the Heavenly Lawn of Greatness LP. Now they are back with their first new material since 2015.

The Big Thumb EP offers not only a trip inside the full-frontal lobe of singer Derek Hammond; not only a shock of melody, noise, audacious wit and thievery musicologically referential impressionistic disorientation – but also a glimpse into the future.