Yumi Zouma - Present Tense

01 “Give It Hell” 3:24
02 “Mona Lisa” 3:33
03 “If I Had The Heart For Chasing” 3:28
04 “Where The Light Used To Lay” 3:36
05 “Razorblade” 2:54
06 “In The Eyes Of Our Love” 3:28
07 “Of Me And You” 2:57
08 “Honestly, It’s Fine” 3:29
09 “Haunt” 3:48
10 “Astral Projection” 3:52

Yumi Zouma’s Josh Burgess likens the band’s songwriting process to gardening, “Someone brings in a seed and through collaboration, it grows into a song that is vastly different from its original form.” Like any garden, this one requires dedicated tending, a practice that seems rather inconvenient if not straight-up difficult, considering the fact that the four members live in disparate parts of the world – calling New York, London, and New Zealand home – but long-distance has always been a feature of their songwriting process, not a bug. Their new album, Present Tense, is the product of those efforts, a work Christie Simpson describes as “a gallery wall displaying these different moments in each of our lives. A process of curation, revisiting the past and making it relevant to the present.
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