Tune-Yards
Royal Festival Hall, London.
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Tune-Yards, the music project of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, is known for its vibrant fusion of indie pop, Afrobeat and experimental loops. Emerging with the 2009 album?BiRd-BrAiNs, recorded on a handheld recorder, Tune-Yards gained widespread acclaim with?w h o k i l l?(2011), which featured the breakout hit?"Bizness"?and won the?Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics' poll. Garbus’ music is characterized by?layered vocals, polyrhythmic beats, and socially conscious lyrics, tackling themes of race, privilege, and politics. Albums like?Nikki Nack?(2014) and?I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life?(2018) further solidified her reputation for pushing sonic and lyrical boundaries. The 2021 album?sketchy.?marked a return to raw, energetic songwriting. Distraction, depression, and heartbreak reign supreme in 2025. “Making art in this day and age for me is a battle for focus; we’re in an age of interruption,” says Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards on sixth album Better Dreaming. Proudly waving an anti-fascist, liberation, freak flag, Better Dreaming contains some of Tune-Yards smoothest, funkiest, and most direct pop music to date, and yes, you can dance to it. Recorded as a duo, all but one of these songs are built around Merrill’s drum looping and rhythm building, as they were on some of their early albums like Bird-Brains and W H O K I L L. Expect an evening of?high-energy live performance?and innovative production from Tune-Yards.