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OOIOO - Taiga
| The Independent | | Yoshimi P-We is probably best known as the titular inspiration for The Flaming Lips' 2002 masterwork Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, but as the prime mover of the Japanese all-girl group OOIOO, she has produced some of the more challenging rock music to come from the Far East in recent years, notably the psychedelic extravaganzas Kila Kila Kila and Gold & Green...full text |
| | Popmatters | | Yoshimi P-We is the coolest person in the world. There really isn’t any credible argument against this truth. She drums and screams and plays trumpet for the Boredoms, a Japanese band so bizarrely great that not even their recent profile in the New Yorker can blunt their edge....full text |
| | CokeMachineGlow | | Given the way the Boredoms loom large, that the Boredoms’ drummer Yoshimi’s other swirl/dot-matrix face slap/band can function at all is amazing, but that’s not even the end of it. OOIOO (either a binary ode to the computer age, or the complete reduction of girl group aesthetic to its own binary expressive “ooh-ee-ooh”) have advantages over the Boredoms that might not be readily apparent when trying to separate the behemoth from the shadow (the shadow often the darker of the two)....full text |
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