Born: 1979
Location: United States
Tune-Yards (stylized as tUnE-yArDs) is the American, Oakland, California–based music project of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner. Garbus's music draws from an eclectic variety of sources and utilizes elements such as loop pedals, ukulele, vocals, and lo-fi percussion. Tune-Yards’ 2011 album Whokill was ranked the number one album of that year in The Village Voice's annual Pazz and Jop critics’ poll.The album Nikki Nack was released in 2014, with its first single, "Water Fountain", being picked up by Google Pixel in 2016 for an advertising campaign. The album I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life was released in January 2018. At the same time, Tune-Yards provided an atmospheric score for the sci-fi film Sorry to Bother You.
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"Tune-Yards are an acquired taste but sometimes you just gotta relax and have a dance"
Another date at Howler locked in
Their new album proves that, says Merrill Garbus
"I think Nikki Nack shows that we are in this for the long haul."
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Nikki Nack establishes Garbus as a cunning, effervescent queen of pop.
You are definitely too sober to handle the 'Water Fountain' video