Refreshing and moody, Yune Pinku takes her brand of house and UK Garage into introverted and uncertain musings. ‘Bluff’ bubbles itself up with consistency from its liquid rhythms and hazy soundscapes, turning the raves into a languid, fickle set.
Yune Pinku settles into the introverted, the uncertain, and the isolated. Genres such as house, drum and bass, and UK garage are genres for the many. The outside, where people dance and rave as the alcohol slowly hits their system. For Yune Pinku however, makes this sound focused on the smaller groups, where the relatable dissatisfaction and disinterest are implemented into her work.
It didn’t start out this way however. The Irish-Malaysian electronic producer didn’t have a fondness for electronic music, putting her ears more into Billie Joel and Madonna. Like how mindsets change as people grow older, Yune Pinku does the same with electronic music. A trade of sounds, sinking her deeper into the scene. Toying with music production software made it easy for her to create otherworldly waves of sounds, and the insight of electronic music sticking to isolated spaces allowed her to splash through, so far as working with Logic1000 for the song ‘What You Like’ in 2021.
Her refreshing thoughts surrounding raves and electronic music twist even further. ‘Bluff’, her debut EP bubbles itself with liquid dance cuts that are fronted with moody, shuffling tones from Yune Pinku. A whirling 4 track EP for the introverted folks standing in the corner of the club, watching the raves pass by with their thoughts dulled down from the drinks, the noise, and the music.
‘DC Rot’ interests itself in all of the things that happen in what one has done in for a certain year. “You should count your time tonight / You think bout my minds delight” Yune Pinku spills with her delicate vocals, that existentialist stillness numbs with the stable house groove with all layered synths and keys snapped by the collapsing drum break. That stillness breaks away, now replaced with anxiousness disguised by fragile courage on ‘Laylo’. It floats through spiky arrays of drum and staccato synth notes with Yune Pinku’s vocals catching up from the quicker rhythm of the track.
The mood shifts into a tilt. Brooding into dissatisfied, uncertain emotions. The thick, wobbly bass amidst stompy house drum beats sets the tone to ‘Affection’. There are stuttering vocals glitching throughout the song, filling in the gaps before the deadpan droll of Yune Pinku’s vocals spurs through. “Don't you have all the attention? / Break your back for some affection / All my life is just reflection” Yune Pinku glosses through, encapturing the dissatisfaction within and gaining the attention needed of the audience. The self-titled track, ‘Bluff’ cuts away the moody mists of the EP. The stabilized drum patterns and liquid synth touches put Yune Pinku’s vocals in a relaxed tone in a post-hangover situation. It ends the EP with a collection of moments, laid down in a spontaneous scribble as it spills through reconnections, calling one’s bluff, not giving a fuck, and not judging at all.
She’s quite early into her career yet her ideas resonate with the introverted, emerging their own blurred-out emotions in the open. A consistent set of tracks that dips and smears into what may have been done similarly in the realm of UK garage and house, but Yune Pinku’s output still delivers with a new lens on the sound. Languid, moody, and numbing, it’s a short EP that fits those who nestle in the corner of the club sets, enhancing their enjoyment in the corner as Yune Pinku’s moody production quips, doozy vocal tone, and introverted lyrical strips puts them into a hypnotic haze in their own small bubble.
Favorite Tracks: ALL OF THEM
Least Favorite Track: NONE OF THEM