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Tune-Yards

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.

Albums

2009 BiRd-BrAiNs
2011 w h o k i l l
2014 Nikki Nack
2018 I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life
2021 sketchy.
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Features / Music
Video Interview: Tune-Yards
We talk spirit animals and Twitter haters with "the worst musician on earth".. Merrill Garbus AKA Tune-Yards has had a pretty good 2014 that has seen the release of her new album Nikki Nack, a killer follow-up to her breakout album WHOKILL from 2011. Noted for her percussive style, Tune-Yards has never been overly easy to define, but there-in lies her uniqueness. Bounding between anything from indie-pop, worldbeat and lo-fi, to Afro-beat, folk and indie, her set at Splendour In The Grass this year had all in a dancing feel good frenzy. We had the chance to chat with her backstage, do a bit of duck-fishing and play some paper-scissors-rock. Follow Tune-Yards: FACEBOOK // WEBSITE
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Tune-Yards, DD Dumbo
"Tune-Yards are an acquired taste but sometimes you just gotta relax and have a dance"
News / Music
Another Splendour In The Grass Sideshow Announced For Tune-Yards
Another date at Howler locked in
News / Music
Splendour's Tune-Yards In Music For The 'Long Haul'
Their new album proves that, says Merrill Garbus
Features / Music
Real Thing
"I think Nikki Nack shows that we are in this for the long haul."
News / Music
Tune-Yards Announces Two Splendour In The Grass Sideshows
Presented by The Music!
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Tune-Yards - Nikki Nack
Nikki Nack establishes Garbus as a cunning, effervescent queen of pop.
News / Music
Splendour Act Tune-Yards Releases New Video Clip
You are definitely too sober to handle the 'Water Fountain' video
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