tUnE-yArDs

Beginning while the lo-fi experimental folk task of Merrill Garbus (also from the noisy indie pop music group Sister Suvi) tUnE-yArDs fuses indie-pop and global components into uniquely vibrant music. Garbus started writing and carrying out beneath the tUnE-yArDs moniker in 2006, utilizing a digital tone of voice recorder and shareware combining software to put together her homespun patchwork of discovered noises, field recordings, ukulele, uncommon percussion and remarkably soulful vocals. It got Garbus 2 yrs to art debut recording, Bird-Brains, which she provided it like a pay-what-you-want download within the tUnE-yArDs site. Thanks to regular touring with performers like Thao and positive hype from music sites, Garbus offered over $1,000 well worth of copies from the recording. In springtime 2009, Marriage Information released the recording on vinyl fabric; that summer season 4AD reissued it in a particular screen-printed edition before liberating a broadly distributed CD edition of Bird-Brains that fall, coinciding having a tour starting for the Dirty Projectors. For 2011’s W H O K I L L, Garbus added bassist Nate Brenner towards the flip and ventured right into a professional studio room for a far more polished but nonetheless wide-ranging audio. The record earned widespread vital acclaim and topped The Community Voice’s annual Pazz and Jop poll of music critics. Early in 2013, Garbus came back with tUnE-yArDs as Yoko, an individual that noticed her covering and remixing two of of Yoko Ono’s music to advantage the Rockaway Waterfront Alliance, among the charities assisting those suffering from Hurricane Sandy. When she started work on the 3rd tUnE-yArDs record, Garbus transformed her strategy: A vacation to Haiti helped offer motivation, and collaborations with companies Malay and John Hill — better known because of their use Big Boi and M.We.A. amongst others — gave 2014’s Nikki Nack a far more eclectic and available feel.