Experimental rock trio Yoo Doo Right (Montréal, CA) wed noisy, melodic guitar parts, effects-laden synthesizer soundscapes, deep bass grooves and patented percussive furies into sprawling, cathartic musical pieces. Drawing inspiration not only from post-rock, krautrock and shoegaze, but also from classical music, electroacoustics and musique concrète, Justin Cober (guitar, synthesizers, vocals), Charles Masson (bass) and John Talbot (drums) create a unique sound where “towering monoliths of roaring riffs crash against swarms of restless rhythms” (Pop Matters). Since forming in 2016, they have released two full-lengths, three EPs, as well as a handful of singles, whilst also touring extensively in Canada, the United States and Europe.
Yoo Doo Right’s first two EPs – Nobody Panicked and Everybody Got On (2016) and EP2 (2017) – served to introduce the band’s signature bombastic approach to psychedelia, while their 7” split (2020) with legendary Japanese experimental titans, Acid Mothers Temple, proposed a more motorik feel. Don’t Think You Can Escape Your Purpose (2021) further established their positively undefinable sound with Paste Magazine describing this first full-length as “sometimes vigorous and verging on total collapse and sometimes delicate and measured, [...] a gift that never stops giving.” On A Murmur, Boundless to the East (2022), their Polaris long-listed sophomore long-player, “Yoo Doo Right are skilled at employing restraint, but when they let themselves go, it feels truly earth-shaking” (AllMusic). Stephan Boissonneault also quips via Flood Magazine: “The post-everything krautrockers’ sophomore album is a towering release fit for nebulous contemplation and feelings of foreboding astral projection.” For the production of these inspired if challenging works, Cober, Masson and Talbot turned to visionary artists such as Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Suuns, Ought, Fly Pan Am), Seth Manchester (Battles, Lightning Bolt, Lingua Ignota), Efrim Menuck (GY!BE, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, All Hands_Make Light), Guillaume Chiasson (Bon Enfant, Ponctuation, Jesuslesfilles), Sébastien Fournier (ALSSDSB, Panopticon Eyelids, No Negative), and Braids’ Austin Tufts and Taylor Smith, while also visiting pristine studios including Hotel2Tango and Breakglass. In light of this, The Sacred Fuck EP (2024) was a departure from previous endeavors with the Montréal trio experimenting with found-sound, field recordings and sonic collage, momentarily straying away from the high-decibel musical juggernauts we’ve growned accustomed to.
Though Yoo Doo Right are quite prolific in the studio, relentlessly yet patiently crafting their uncompromising and ever-evolving sonic manifesto, one could argue that it is during live concerts that they most aptly capture the very essence of their art. On stage, they can be loud, bold, assertive and dynamic, psychedelic and ethereal with Allie Gregory at Exclaim! praising their “rhythmic synchronicity” and “near-telepathic connectivity”. The Austin Chronicle describes the band’s live performance as “a gargantuan bash, its instrumentals loud and distorted enough to collapse upon themselves in a chain reaction of musical mass.” Hoping to share their music with as many communities as possible, the three-piece never shy away from touring opportunities, which led to multiple stints in Canada, the United States and Europe, and well over 200 dates to this day. Along the way, they have performed at notorious events such as SXSW, Levitation, Dunk! Fest, Sled Island, Treefort Music Fest, and M for Montreal, also sharing the stage with the likes of Acid Mothers Temple, DIIV, A Place to Bury Strangers, Wooden Shjips, Kikagaku Moyo, FACS, and Jessica Moss.
More recently, the Montréal outfit visited Seth Manchester at Machines with Magnets in Pawtucket, RI to record their third full-length album. Scheduled for November 8th, 2024 via Mothland,From the Heights of Our Pastureland is yet another solemnanddefiant entry in Yoo Doo Right’s rich music catalogue, an honest and patient sonic poem about the destructive process of unbridled expansion in the name of "progress", the inevitable collapse and what it means to rebuild. The album is an expanding succession of highly dynamic musical epics intertwined with emotionally-charged sonic explorations. Whether carefully harvesting melodic soundscapes, repeating mantra-like arrangements with mechanical precision, digging unfathomably deep amidst abyssal electrical signals, or simply saturating reels with raucous abandon, Yoo Doo Right set out to further develop ideas they previously started exploring, in turn offering a third opus that is darker, heavier, even more ominous than their previous works. Highly recommended for fans of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Big|Brave or METZ.
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“Landing between spacey krautrock, the doomy post-rock of Godspeed!, and the modern psych sounds made trendy by The Black Angels and their Reverb Appreciation Society and Levitation Fest, the six-minute lead single is a cosmic journey toward an uncertain destination.”
“This is a herculean effort of exploration, yielding an expansive sound with rich dynamics.” “Their powerful “wall of sound” approach is all-engulfing in a warm, delicious sonic embrace”
“Towering monoliths of roaring riffs crash against swarms of restless rhythms. However, it consistently maintains a certain airy dexterity of creation and being.”
“Fusing together elements of krautrock, psychedelia and shoegaze, the trio are arguably one of the most inventive outfits on the burgeoning Quebec underground scene right now.”
“Tangerine Dream-like soundscapes, Morricone guitars and post-rock scope into their sound”
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Awards
Polaris Music Prize - Long List 2023
Polaris Music Prize - Long List 2022
Post-punk/Post-rock album of the year - GAMIQ 2022
Shared stage with:
A Place To Bury Strangers, The Underground Youth,
Lorrelle Meets The Obsolete, Kikagaku Moyo,
Acid Mothers Temple, Wooden Shjips, DIIV, Jessica Moss, FACS, FRIGS, HSY