Yes, indeed! The emphatic duo of Laurie Tompkins and Otto Willberg return for their third release, ‘Rotten Luck’ - a record we fell in love with watching the two of them gleefully headbanging in time, shrouded in the much beloved fog of Spanners club.Their first LP ‘Exorcise’, clobbered those that dared drop the needle with a brand of shrieking dadaism that lay impermeable but to the insane. It freaked us out, that cacophony soup. On ‘Rotten Luck’ - their funkiest number yet - there are tunes instead, good ones, meaty ones, soaked in bass riffs and lairy lyrics. There are hooks to grip on to and little silly grins to catch in the gloaming synth holds.Around the time of Yes Indeed's last release I was listening to a lot of Blue Gene Tyranny, working in the shop and selling loads of copies of the boxset that sadly marked his death. Listening to Willberg's squelching synth slap on ‘Our Dads’, I’m reminded of Blue Gene’s ‘Any Fine Afternoon' - a goofy kind of song whose bass line caused me to listen to the whole Theme Hospital soundtrack in earnest appreciation. ‘Awe’ on ‘Rotten Luck’ has a kind of Dreamtime energy to it, it’s jazzy double bass laced with wavy keys. It would seem I wasn’t the only one listening to the boxset.Primarily a composer, Laurie Tompkins is one third of the energy behind pop mulchers Slip. In the year between Yes Indeed releases, Tompkins has done 3 more CDs (33–33, Entrac’te and Hyperdelia), in a marvellous flurry of productiveness. Otto Willberg is bass player in Ray (alongside Ashley Paul and Yoni Silver) and Historically Fucked - a band who make songs as quick as they can and tear them down even faster. The mutual ground between the two is rich then, in pop, rock and the nonsensical. On ‘Rotten Luck’ it seems at its most fertile. Weirdness isn’t a mask - it’s not self conscious. It’s headbanging without realising it, slaying your arranged oddities with your mate, grinning the whole time and giving that out generously.  Extra samples on 5 by Gwilly EdmondezSax and melodica on 8 and 10 by Sam AndreaeMusic by Laurie Tompkins & Otto WillbergMastered by Mark KlonArtwork by FridgeLayout by Carey Alborough

‘Exorcise’ is Yes Indeed’s bats debut: a death disco plate of syrupy bass, ratty violin and keys, stir-crazed vocals, and clobbered spinnet, magicked and minced by FX.   London burbs’ Laurie Tompkins (composes, performs); Otto Willberg (improvises on basses) are long-time friends, and this 12” - their first release as Yes Indeed - departs from a clump of raucous and intermittent shows, and a 2016 live tape on Willberg’s Heavy Petting.   The EP measures the pair’s clotted, foolish overdubs against a backbone of dubbed-out spinnet and pit percussion, played cosmic and blood-spattered by guest Aaron Parker. Laurie’s keys and violin are trapped and tart, Otto’s electric slinky and gruff, Laurie-Otto voice the fever dream of a train through Woking.   ---   ‘Exorcise’ is available from June 2021 on the pair’s newly-minted Why Eye label as a 12” vinyl and/or download. released June 17, 2021   ---Paintings by Mio Ebisu. Music by Laurie Tompkins & Otto Willberg, feat. Aaron Parker. Recorded by Andrea Rocca at Baby Microbe. Mastered and pressed at Curved Pressings.   ---