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Yomi Ship — Feast Eternal
(Bird's Robe BRRV181, 2024, CD / LP / DL)

by Jon Davis, Published 2025-06-23

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When Feast Eternal showed up, Yomi Ship was unknown to me. It is their first full-length release, though they’ve put out a number of EPs and singles since their beginnings in 2016. The group hails from Perth in Western Australia, and features Jade Champion on bass and a few other instruments, Nick Osborne on drums and percussion, and Jarred Osborne on guitars and keyboards. Stylistically, they take elements of space rock, progressive rock, and post rock, and blend them into an appealing sound that might have listeners thinking of Ozric Tentacles in some moments but “Interstellar Overdrive” in others, or a math-rock band like Covet or Elephant Gym, or even an instrumental Sigur Rós in others. (They’ve been known to cover tunes by The Mars Volta and Black Midi in their live sets.) Their time together shows in the seamless integration of their various influences — I checked out some of their earlier releases on Bandcamp, and while they were good, they don’t reach the level of consistent identity found on Feast Eternal. Setting the stage for the album, they present a brief “Intro” of tinkling notes leading into “The Izoku,” a powerful track that has several contrasting sections and features some intriguing and unusual chords as well as varying time signatures. Their mathy inclinations are not generally overly flashy or technical, but flow naturally. At a bit over six minutes, it’s the longest track on the album, showing that Yomi Ship is a band able to pack a lot of ideas into relatively short pieces; even at these shorter durations, the compositions sound full and not rushed, even having an epic feel without stretching to epic length. They also do not venture into lengthy guitar solos. Aside from “The Izoku,” the standout tracks are “Watch Out for the Water,” “Oni,” and “Obake’s Grotto,” though each of the dozen tracks has something to offer. If I had one complaint, it’s that like much music in the post-rock area, the tracks sometimes feel like backing tracks in search of a melody. But maybe that’s just me being old-fashioned — it’s such a common trait that I can take it as a part of the style. To my mind, it’s the psychedelic and spacey aspects of Yomi Ship that are most appealing anyway.

Filed under: New releases, 2024 releases

Related artist(s): Yomi Ship

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http://yomiship.bandcamp.com/album/feast-eternal

 

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