Neu YUNO

: YUNO
Based: Jacksonville
Listen: ‘Sunlight’, out now.
Similar to: Beach Fossils, Twin Shadow

Last week saw Florida’s YUNO digitally release a handful of new material and, much to journalistic distress, the content refuses to be pigeonholed into a musical category, which is bound to leave a lot of genre-junkies scratching their heads.

YUNO’s influences are fairly transparent, yet wide ranging. ‘Sunlight’ recalls the lo-fi surf pop sound honed by Beach Fossils that is glimmered in a digitised Twin Shadow-esque production. Temporary contingency then spills over into the punkier and more upbeat ‘You Never Call Me (On The Phone)’, which would not seem misplaced on a Wavves album. However, perplexity then strikes with ‘Thingamajig’ and ‘Disney World’, which are purely electronic, autotune-encompassing numbers.

Although this young fella is clearly having some kind of identity crisis (Surftronica? Digi-wave? Whatever). YUNO’s music is drenched in a youthful sweetness and pop innocence that remains difficult to dislike.