YVETTE
How The Garden Grows WESTERN VINYL
Long-awaited follow-up from Noah Kardos-Fein’s industrial pop project
7/10
Eight years after releasing the industrial throb of Process, Yvette returns – now as a solo vehicle for Noah Kardos-Fein – with a years-in-themaking LP. The clattering hiss and metallic roar of the debut can still be heard, but there is more emphasis on immersive textures and melodies .Kardos-Fein’s ghostly, fragmented and often buried vocals collide with dark ambient, industrial shoegaze and avant-pop to produce something that feels like a blend of Liars, Xiu Xiu and Animal Collective. However, tracks like the pulsing “Contact High” and the synth-laced “Best Intentions” display a clear fondness for burying pop music underneath its wall-ofsound approach.