Bumbershoot is right around the corner. Next weekend a smear of local talent will be on display near the 74-acre Seattle Center park, and the band I’m most hankering to see right now would be Yuni in Taxco. After years of admiring each others’ work in various projects, the five-piece assemblage of brothers Ross (vocals, guitar) and Bryce (drums), Sean (vocals, guitar), Jim (bass, slide guitar) and Isaiah (backing vocals, electronics, percussion) found themselves in a collaboration. The band has been together for over a year now and are still playing on their very strong self-titled EP containing some of Seattle’s most inspired, shimmering, sepia-toned pop. Animal Collective circa Sung Tongs and Feels are a fairly obvious influence on the band, and in the track "Eduardo Kac’s Dream Song" you can hear a bit of Smith Westerns derived vocal patterns, but this band does more than enough to separate themselves from their influences, which can be a difficult task to accomplish in any medium (See Harold Bloom’s "Anxiety of Influence"). They play September 3 at 12:45pm on the Fisher Green Stage.
