When I listened to Yin Yuke's second album " What Are You Laughing " , I defined an "unconventional" label for such a musical form, although labeling is inappropriate for today's young people.
Or in other words, in the era of vientiane, any possible music and style is not a routine, and everyone is unconventional, and the occasional routine becomes an "anti-routine".
I mean, when Yin Yuke only warmed up the album with the three singles of "Be a Thief", "There is Something in the Closet" and "Cold", he did not raise the appetite of the fans, and directly threw out a whole album, this "traditional" behavior is now rare in the Chinese market, but the current "dismemberment" song after song on the line of the hair film routine.
After that, the entire album "What Are You Laughing at" completely laid out the way to listen to emotions, and the high degree of completion is also an unconventional operation in the current era of fragmented music dissemination.
From being remembered in music competitions with great contrasting timbres, to gradually groping for the most comfortable state of sound between the stage, creation and studio, Yin Yuke downplayed the sense of human design in his second album "What Are You Laughing", and preferred to use a conceptual idea to present a state of musician, which has ups and downs and light and dark, indulgence and even redemption.
From the setting arrangement of "Entrance", "Intro" to "Exit", I have a feeling of playing a room escape room with Yin Yuke from the sound of my senses.
The musical execution that supports this high sense of conceptual density is concentrated in Yin Yuke's creation and Chen Chenchen's arrangement and production ideas, and the combination of these two is precisely the key to the sense of album being greater than the sense of fragmentation of singles.
Of course, the listener can listen to the excitement of different singles one by one according to the current listening habits.
For example, "A Letter to the God of Sleep" is really light enough in addition to sleeping, and the listener can also find a kind of painful relief in the dense rhythm of "I, Finished", the source of this pain is derived from the suppressed emotional dark side of the previous song "There is something in the closet", and then a song "The Day After Tomorrow" is then staggered with a sense of confusion and redemption, slowly attracting people's emotions to sway with Yin Yuke in his music.
The brilliance of this album is not limited to: "Be a Thief" gives people a kind of dark thrill in the ear with a solid drum beat; "Cold" enters from Yin Yuke's ethereal oratorio, and then with different musical levels such as folk passages and Dream-Pop, it is staggered out of the heart- and heart-wrenching; "I'm Really Strange, Strange" presents a rare moment of joy on the album with an interesting song title and an unusually brisk playful lyric...
Fourteen singles achieved each other, and finally completed the "What Are You Laughing" is an album that coexists with artistic sense and pleasantness, and emotional and technical specifications.
After listening to the album, and then looking back at the cover of the album "What Are You Laughing At", Yin Yuke, who is obviously a small face, has deliberately widened the outline of his face on the cover, and the black and red that do not appear bright create a strong sense of visual impact, which can make people complete the process of introspection in the process of darker and more awake.
It turns out that Yin Yuke's reconciliation with himself, the reconciliation between music and the listener, before the album's hearing invaded us, the visual symbols have buried this unconventional beauty, so the matter of impressing people with music has become logical and self-consistent in Yin Yuke's second specialty.