yumi zouma

Yumi Zouma came out of nowhere early this year with an EP of softly shimmering, twilit dream-disco that was so pitch-perfect (right down to the cover art; some might even suggest it was 'custom-built' for us) that it almost felt like it was destined to be a fluke, a debut that was surely the result of some kind of serendipitous long-distance magic that a young group has trouble ever recapturing.

Thanks to Yumi Zouma for the heads up this afternoon on their "new favourite band", Paris' Juniore, and their elegant, haunting '60s French pop-noir vibes, which have been described as sounding like "...Françoise Hardy met le pied dans un western spaghetti... Read More ...

Yumi Zouma is coming to America this week, and in anticipation of their first ever US shows, the group is giving away this subtle up-tempo edit of their Air France collab/cover "It Feels Good To Be Around You". YZ's label Cascine has also hooked us up with 3 signed copies of the group's stellar, very sold-out debut 10" EP (pictured, click for larger image) to give away, plus 2 pair

We are very honored to help present the Cascine & Friends summer label tour, "designed to shine a light on labels with distinct aesthetics and the artists who embody their focused approaches." Hosted by the lovely luminaries at one of our favorite labels in the world, Cascine, in collaboration with a few of our other favorite labels, 100% SILK, Arbutus and Ghostly International. St

Dear Air France, Sometimes I think the way we met...happened too fast...Our favorite dream-pop upstarts Yumi Zouma drop a sumptuous, absolutely beautiful cover of the late, great Air France's glorious final single, with a little help from Joel + Henrik themselves...

Yumi Zouma's excellent debut EP is officially out tomorrow on Cascine (if you haven't been following along, you can stream the whole thing after the jump), and to commemorate the occasion, like-minded dream pop mastermind Wild Nothing offers up his own hypnotic, gently pulsing take on the group's soft-disco-funk EP opener/mood-setter, "A Long Walk Home For Parted Lovers". Listen below,

As long as these guys keep releasing tracks this good, we'll keep posting them: "Riquelme" is the 4th and final song to be unveiled from Yumi Zouma's debut 10" EP, out February 10 on Cascine.

Our friends at Yours Truly just debuted another great track from Yumi Zouma's lovely, undeniable self-titled debut EP; now that you've heard 3 of the 4 songs on this thing and are completely sold / in love, go ahead and grab the 10" now from Cascine:

Another dreamy, albeit slightly funkier, pop gem from New Zealand's Yumi Zouma, who've sort of taken the (blog) world by storm since unveiling their flawless debut single "The Brae" last week. Yumi Zouma's limited self-titled 10" EP is out soon on Cascine; get familiar: