Yura Yura - Substance Noire (2020)

The substance noire, or substantia nigra, a ganglia structure in the midbrain that is essential to both movement and reward: What could be a more appropriate title for YURA YURA’s third full length HANDS album? After the dense and atmospheric “Rumu Namba” of 2016 he has again taken due time to enhance his production and put together just under 80 minutes of top-notch industrial rhythm’n’noise, covering a considerable range of emotions - and incidentally yielding a number of serious club tracks as well.
From the outset, Yura Yura wastes no time with subtleties, tracks like “Hypnasch” or “Lakrimal” epitomize his trademark sound: Hard and ruthless it is, with the rhythmic patterns constantly shifting and evolving and a second layer of sounds and sparsely used samples underneath that add atmosphere and depth. Some tracks are faster (“Kalor”), some slow and grinding (“Shadow”, “Voodoo”), some tracks are unabashedly rocking (“The Eyes”), some purely atmospheric (“Yungle”, “Innen“). To throw in even more diversity, we get “Contakt”, an old school style hit track, and the electro tune “Flesh”.
The bracket holding this album together as an entity is a sense of darkness, a substantially black mood. With “Substance Noire” Yura Yura truly delivers an industrial and rhythm’n’noise masterpiece!