YUMI ZOUMA - Willowbank (Sealed) (LP)

Following last year's lauded debut LP, Yumi Zouma return to Cascine with their sophomore album, Willowbank, a collection of dreamy, disco-indebted pop tracks. The album's namesake is a wildlife reserve in the band's home base of Christchurch, NZ, a community on the mend in the wake of a devastating earthquake in 2011. The Yumis, whose four members are scattered across the globe, reunited in New Zealand to write and record Willowbank. The result is an album that channels both the tight-knit togetherness and the unparalleled beauty of their native land. Willowbank is also some of Yumi Zouma's best work to date, refining their effortless, windswept songwriting sensibility, while also exploring a new pallet of sounds and textures.