Yatsura – ¡Pulpo! (1997)


 

Artist:  Yatsura

Title: ¡Pulpo!

Strategic Hamlets/Down Home Kitty/Pampered Adolescent/Kozee Heart/Fake Fur/Silver Krest/Got The Sun/Nova Static/Revir/The Power of Negative Thinking/The Love That Brings You Down

Label:  Primary Recordings/ché 

Format:  CD

Cat: 62084-2

Year of Release: 1997

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1997

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 5/24/22

Sell Price: $2.99

Discogs Last Sold: 6/6/22 VG+/NM $3.99

Low: $1.50

Median: $2.50

Average: $2.99

High: $5.99

Current low price:$2.00

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 7

Have/Want: 64/19

Where Sold: Maplewood, NJ

Time it took to sell: 11 years

Where and When Bought: NYC Smash St Marks dollar crate late 90's

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C-

Sad To See It Go: No

Scottish band from Glasgow, Urusai Yatsura truncated to Yatsura in the US due to name conflict with the comic book.   For whatever reason you can't find the complete album in stream land, but a couple videos and most of the tracks are up under their homeland namesake.

I gave this a headphone listen last night, and all I could think of was this was generic Pavement inspired indie rock of the late 90's.  Inoffensive, but definitely a dollar bin gamble where I found it.  The ché  label generally produced releases I liked at radio, and I think to get my deal I had to pull a certain number of cds.  I think it was 20 for 20.  In the 90's I had no problem going through crates on the piss soaked area under the steps on St. Marks to get at bargain CD's.

The band at least acknowledges the Pavement over-influence in "Kozee Heart" with a heartfelt intro not to take the piss out of them for being influenced by Steve Malkmus.  I have to admit it made me appreciate them a little more and not dock them down further than C-. 

File with Sammy.

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