11/10/2023 0 Comments Yumi zouma![]() The man I stood next to throughout the night perfectly sang along to all the songs the band played. I was one of the youngest people in the crowd, though I don’t underestimate the power of Midwestern corporate millennials-when it came to singing along, the crowd knew every song, word for word. Stepping into the venue for an alternative pop concert, I was initially surprised by the older makeup of the crowd: mostly millennials in company-branded Patagonia vests and cream-colored oversized cardigans. Knowing that I was in one of the first crowds to watch Yumi Zouma’s new music performed live made the concert experience all the more special. Though the tour was focused on their newest album Present Tense, the group also made sure to give its album Truth or Consequences, released in 2020, its own moments of glory. Over the past eight years, Yumi Zouma has released three extended plays and four albums, two of which were released during the pandemic and had never been featured on tour before. Yumi Zouma is composed of four members: singer Christie Simpson, guitarists Josh Burgess and Charlie Ryder, and drummer Olivia Campion. Dreamy guitar lines and gentle drumming are instrumental to this group’s indie-pop sound, and after years of Spotify streaming, I ducked into Lincoln Hall on a rainy night in April, ready to finally hear the band live. There was just something so warm and airy about the way lead singer Christie Simpson sang the lyrics “everything has changed” in “In Camera” that made me shamelessly hunt down the song I haven’t stopped listening to the New Zealand band since. I stumbled upon the band Yumi Zouma a few years ago when I first heard one of its songs in the background of a vegan recipe video on YouTube. ![]()
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