- Intricate club music with an addictively light touch.
- Since 2019, Yushh has been quietly solidifying a name for herself and her label, Pressure Dome, in Bristol and beyond. She's a regular at key clubs in the city—like The Love Inn and Strange Brew—with a taste for UK-flavoured techno reinforced with a weighty low-end. Yushh is, as her fellow Bristolians would likely call her, a mainstay in Bristol dance music right now. Until now, she had only released a handful of one-off tracks and remixes, getting comfortable with a sound that references Bristol bass music—space, sub-bass, broken rhythms—with an added lightness, thanks to her gleaming pads and intricate textures. In a 2020 interview, she explained her approach as a blend between "sound art" and dance floor bangers. Yushh's debut EP, Look Mum No Hands, released on Wisdom Teeth, is an assertive step forward, digging her foundations deeper into that sweet spot.
Yushh experiments with quaking low-end on the dubby, shuddering rhythms of "Self Couscous" and darker, more eerie sonics with the andante stomp of "Close Fall." On the title track and opener, she takes the listener all the way underwater, with floating pads, cavernous expanses of reverb and a rich sound that could almost be the far-reaching hum of whale song. A previous Wisdom Teeth review described Yushh's track "Fairy Liquor'' as "clear as a crystal wine glass." On "Same Same," the most lightweight track on the EP—on something of a broken techno tip, but with the skip of a garage tune—the vibe is something fizzy being poured into that crystal glass. Small, perfectly-formed bubbles that shoot upwards through the liquid and pop satisfyingly at the surface—dance music that works on the macro and micro scale at the same time.
Tracklist01. Look Mum No Hands
02. Same Same
03. Close Fall
04. Self Couscous