For the past decade plus, San Jose has been the secret home to a lot of awesome music, particularly this noisy noodly fuzzy messy pop that has influenced bands all over the country, a bunch of whom ended up pretty successful while the San Jose scene remained in the shadows. Yulia is made up of a few members of some of my favorite San Jose bands, Shinobu and The Albert Square. A lot of people heading into adulthood and down different life paths might approach their later records under with subdued performance under the false guise of seeming "mature."
Instead of that bullshit, Yulia blast out of the gate like a cannonball slamming a 40 oz. Yes, heartbreak sucks, getting older sucks, the intangible feeling of being lost and longing for some mysterious solution as life goes on fucking sucks. But going to house shows and screaming as loud as you can will never not be fun. Props to Yulia for making a fun as fuck, loud as fuck pop-punk record without sugarcoating any truth.