Yves Tumor at Cornell Homecoming

Yves Tumor performed the 2023 Cornell Homecoming Live performance this Sunday at Barton Corridor for an especially excited crowd of a number of hundred college students and alumni.

Tumor, born Sean Lee Bowie in Miami, is an American musician with a cult following who has been releasing music below the Yves Tumor title since 2015. In line with Dazed, Tumor started experimenting with music as a method of escaping the “boring, conservative environment”of Knoxville, Tennessee, the place they grew up. The need to interrupt boundaries and escape conventional norms is clear of their music. Tumor’s discography covers all kinds of genres, to the purpose that the one hyperlink between a few of their songs is the truth that they sound nothing like something you’ve heard earlier than. Nevertheless, Tumor is greatest described as a contemporary rock artist with experimental roots, mixing the traditional style with digital and psychedelic influences.

Tumor’s individuality can be displayed within the big selection of artists, engineers and producers they work with. Their collaborators embody different figures corresponding to James Ferraro, a pioneer of the vaporwave style, Alice Glass, former frontwoman of Crystal Castles, Grammy award winner Noah Goldstein, Drain Gang icon Ecco2k and indie artists corresponding to Joji and Willow.

Regardless of the esoteric and idiosyncratic high quality to their music, they’ve loved widespread acclaim and recognition. Their album Protected in The Fingers of Love gained Finest Dance/Digital File in 2019 on the Libera awards, which have a good time the unbiased music neighborhood. Three of their albums acquired the coveted “Finest New Music” designation from Pitchfork, together with Protected in The Fingers of Love, which was rated a 9.1 and was ranked as Pitchfork’s tenth greatest album of 2018.

As many Cornell college students have found the exhausting method, there’s a massive distinction between making good music and being an entertaining performer. We stay in an period of music the place refined autotune makes having a very good voice pointless, and after they’re not blatantly lip-synching, artists usually take their jobs as performers to contain displaying up an hour late, dancing round to their music and infrequently singing alongside for a line or two.

As a facet observe, the web has been a double-edged sword for music. On the one hand, it makes it extraordinarily straightforward for artists to get found and make a profession for themselves, which means that music is a extra viable profession possibility than it was. This additionally makes it straightforward for individuals to discover the kind of music they’re concerned with. I don’t know of anyone in Gen-Z whose music style hasn’t been closely influenced by the web and what they see on it. Alternatively, the web has maybe made it too straightforward for individuals to get found, cheapening what it means to be an artist. This isn’t essentially dangerous, and I don’t imply to be pretentious, I hearken to loads of shitty music. When you ask me although, stay performances within the period of TikTok fame are really the one method of figuring out whether or not an artist has actual, tangible expertise.

As a fan of Yves Tumor for numerous years, I used to be tremendously trying ahead to seeing the outcomes of this check in individual at their Homecoming efficiency, which they described in the course of the present as the primary leg of their worldwide tour. Tumor didn’t disappoint. Sporting a pinstripe go well with and accompanied by a stay band, Tumor delivered an brisk and passionate efficiency of a 15-song setlist. The present was a murals, with an especially refined gentle manufacturing that fantastically matched the music and completely set the temper for every music.

Tumor opened with “God is a Circle,” the main observe from their critically acclaimed new album Reward a Lord Who Chews However Which Does Not Devour; (Or Merely, Sizzling Between Worlds). The music, that includes fast-paced, dirty manufacturing from Noah Goldstein, discusses points with a poisonous lover (a theme probably relatable for a lot of Cornell college students). Tumor performed two extra songs from the brand new album earlier than taking part in the fan-favorite “Jackie”, a music that showcases Tumor’s spectacular expertise in making music that’s each distinctive and catchy. After “Jackie,” Tumor performed “Gospel for a New Century,” a traditional with a stupendous start-and-stop opening that first received me into their music.

To me, one of many coolest issues about music is its potential to evoke reminiscences and transport individuals again to particular moments in time and intervals of their lives. Firstly of freshman 12 months, I made enjoyable of my good friend as a result of he’d at all times play the identical music at any time when we’d hang around. I believed it was annoying, and I might at all times beg him to show it off, a lot to his amusement. Right now, although, I actually recognize that he did that. I could neglect the particular particulars of the start of my time at Cornell, however listening to NOSTYLIST by Destroy Lonely will at all times carry me again. Equally, listening to Gospel For A New Century stay for the primary time introduced me again to senior 12 months of highschool, a time of a variety of uncertainty and alter for many people. Listening to the music in Barton two years later was a wild second.

After Gospel, Tumor performed a wide range of songs from the brand new album in addition to from their legendary 2021 The Asymptomatic World EP. Essentially the most memorable second (moreover an ill-fated and complicated mosh try) was in the course of the final music. Because the band began to play what is maybe Tumor’s most well-known music, Kerosene, Tumor requested the viewers to sing the music as an alternative. The 2023 Cornell Homecoming Live performance ended with Tumor stress-free on stage, face coated studying the Each day Solar as college students took activates the mic.

Tover Feist is a sophomore within the College of Industrial and Labor Relations. He might be reached at [email protected].