{"product_id":"the-yummy-fur-everybody-talks-about-the-weather-blue-lp","title":"THE YUMMY FUR - Everybody Talks About The Weather [Blue LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: LP\u003cbr\u003eCatalogue No.: UTR178LPBS\u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 828887117839\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 25 Sep 2026\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Post-Punk\/Indie-Rock\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst album by legendary Glasgow group The Yummy Fur in 27 years!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLimited INDIES ONLY 180g ‘blue sunshine’ vinyl (transparent light blue and transparent yellow vinyl). Non-Returnable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLimited 180gm Black Vinyl + Limited mini-gatefold CD.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album begins with “Cogs”, a taunting inquisition from within. As McKeown stages a fight between his id and ego, the tension heats up between conversational guitar lines and minimalist repetition; threatening sing-song melody and real, palpable menace. The band members are forced in tandem only to break apart, sustaining a genuine sense of just-hidden danger throughout the whole record – except, arguably, “Headphones”, a looser moment which sees McKeown make an existential something out of nothing while waiting for someone in the car (“I should have brought a book...\/My ears are bleeding from the compression on your album”)\u003cbr\u003eThe songs are riots of reference: “Unity Over Europe” is a slyly complex two act play about the Mitford sisters – Diana, Unity, and Nancy, in a wink to the YF canon – smashing tragic biographical detail together with allusions to Thomas Pynchon and Francis Bacon. Pynchon is also lifted to serve “Blue Sunshine”, a collision of school shooters, serial killers and fictional fuck-ups (“Fast forward to Compton\/Fast forward to Pynchon\/Fast forward to Columbine'”) whose buzzy guitar lines are taunting and confrontational like a smarmy teenager. The innocuous title of “My Lasagne” belies a song that exists in several time periods at once: a visit to see Guernica, 50 people with their backs to the portrait of Dora Maar; the time that Picasso painted from; the Reina Sofia and the dirty streets of the Malasaña; myth-making musicians and the myths they’re riffing off overlapping and leering at each other. \u003cbr\u003eAll this could be laboured in lesser hands, but cultural verbosity is second nature to The Yummy Fur, who transform all this source material into songs that are weird, sexy, funny and absurd. Meaning is not happily understood or flattened. Susan Sontag's essay Against Interpretation accompanied McKeown as he wrote this album, and she’s paraphrased in “Semolina Ballerina”, the album’s justification of artistic ambiguity. Thomson’s motorik beat leads a gathering of back-and-forth instrumental phrases – including a wiry contribution on saxophone – embodying the futility of trying to parse something definitive from repeated action. “Listen to the very first thing that’s in your head,” Sontag-via-McKeown commands directly, then slinks sideways: “Interpretation is a conversation in an unmade bed”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album features two more focused portraits, or at least The Yummy Fur’s version of such a thing. “Wanda” merges the life of filmmaker Barbara Loden and the title character of her semi-autobiographical 1970 feature film, with Loden’s then-husband Elia Kazan joining the fray of no-good men in her film. It’s a mix of adaptation and avant-criticism, with McKeown’s wordplay and mannered pronunciation mirroring the way that non-fiction and fiction twist around each other in the song. The title track is a series of vignettes and impressions from the lives of the band’s ‘90s inner circle, positing painter Mac McNaughton as a kind of Falstaffian ringleader. As with Piggy Wings and the recent single “New T-Shirt”, McNaughton painted the cover of Everybody Talks About The Weather – like the album’s music, the image of a coy girl in a white dress is an uncanny amalgamation of styles, suggestions and references just out of reach, as though seen in an art museum in a dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album ends with two reads of the same frustration. “King of Nothing” is the closest The Yummy Fur will ever get to sludge-rock: the band melts together into a dusty, dreary haze as McKeown drowns in a drudgery of personal struggle (“Two jumpers on in Babylon\/And only cats to talk to”) and the rhythmic toppling of heroes (Rowlands, Duvall, Munro). The majority of visible dirt is cleaned off for “Say Hello”, an uncharacteristic depiction of throwing the windows open after a dark night of the soul. Here, the situation is still cold and hard (“When the sun burns gold, but the heat never reaches your fingertips”) but it feels surmountable. Everybody Talks About The Weather is an unpredictable album from an unpredictable group, but ending on a moment of almost uncomplicated light is maybe its biggest surprise. - Claire Biddles (2026)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003eSIDE A 01.  Cogs 02.  Unity Over Europe 03.  Wanda 04.  Semolina Ballerina 05.  Blue Sunshine\u003cbr\u003eSIDE B 06. Everybody Talks About The Weather 07.  My Lasagne 08.  Headphones 09.  King of Nothing 10.  Say Hello\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Upset The Rhythm","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47606560948380,"sku":"UTR178LPBS","price":20.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/files\/blue_f1b25ad7-cd09-4675-9aaf-322d91f72298.jpg?v=1789487886","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/the-yummy-fur-everybody-talks-about-the-weather-blue-lp","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}