Yello – Touch

I’ve been a fan of Yello since the mid eighties, when someone introduced me to the Stella album. From there I got the previous albums, and I’ve bought every one since. There’s a couple missing now (The Race, and Essential), but all the same, they’re a collection of CDs that I love.

The last Yello album I bought was The Eye, back in 2003, and I hadn’t heard anything more from them since then.

For whatever reason, I’ve been listening to the Pocket Universe album in the car over the last couple of weeks, and (as always) really enjoyed listening to it – and it occurred to me that I hadn’t checked in a while to see whether there was anything new.

And lo, it turned out that there was – Touch, released in October last year. Happy, happy day.

I received it yesterday, and it’s been on in the car today.

And it’s really good – as usual. Much more accessible than most of their stuff, and much less mad – rather than heavy electronica it’s got a really bluesy feel to a lot of it, which I really like.

I hope it’ll be a lot less than seven years before the next album comes out.