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YAVENIRIE AMOK birthed ritualistic rebellion from the bones of modern decay in their third single, ‘Obelisque Queen’ –
YAVENIRIE AMOK birthed ritualistic rebellion from the bones of modern decay in their third single, ‘Obelisque Queen’ –
Put YAVENIRIE AMOK in a box, and they’ll burn it down as a form of ritualistic rebellion.
Following a sermonic folk rock guitar melody, their third single, Obelisque Queen, hymnally writhes through grungy distortion and psychedelic desert rock twangs of humidity. With vocals that synthesise the spectral style of Siouxsie Sioux with the ethereal ferocity of Florence Welch over Flamenco guitars and white-hot oscillations of transcendental abstraction, the track taps into something intrinsically primal.
It isn’t just a howl into the void, it’s a full-body invocation; a snarl at the gold-plated rot of modern society, where truth is the last thing anyone wants dragged into the banquet hall. While courtiers clink glasses in denial, YAVENIRIE AMOK howl from the gutter, rising sharper and louder as they spit fire back into the faces of the wilfully blind. There’s no apathy here, only arcane heat and a visceral confrontation to protest against how everything has become bastardised since aesthetics overtook ethics and left culture to be gnawed apart by profiteers.
Fronted by vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Zuza Tehanu, and completed by Asia, Tom, and Jan, the London-formed but Polish-rooted four-piece have been shaping their sonic and visual world since 2016. After surviving both personal loss and creative upheaval, they’ve returned from the flames with a sound that refuses definition. Their music straddles the ritualistic and the riotous, the poetic and the prophetic, built on the belief that raw expression can rattle cages and summon spirit back into the art form.
If the recorded material lands like this, the live experience must be nothing short of an awakening.
Obelisque Queen is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify.
Review by Amelia Vandergast
