Ears Wide Open: Yume

Kevin Bronson on March 28th, 2017

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After releasing two EPs and a single between 2013 and ’16, Kid Cadaver has been put on the back burner, but the trio’s members have remained busy. Only a unit since January, Yume is the quartet featuring singer-guitarist Ray Venta and drummer Kenzo Cardenas from Kid Cadaver along with guitarist Charles Crowley and bassist Nikita Arefkia (who played with Vinyl Williams for two-plus years). And they already have an EP to show for their efforts, “A Violet Light & a Hum,” which was engineered by Kid Cadaver’s Jeremy Harris and released last Friday. They call their music “dreamo,” and indeed it fits neatly between two genres, with guitars alternately biting and swirling over propulsive bass lines. The boy/girl vocal interplay on “I Don’t Belong Here (And Neither Do You)” seems equally planted in the ’90s and ’00s; the dynamics and big chorus in “Gills” pack a modern emo punch. It’s a promising start, but does it mean the end of Kid Cadaver? “We’re not totally sure yet,” they say on their Facebook page. “We still have unreleased music and we still have show offers coming our way but right now this new chapter has our full love and attention.”

||| Stream: The “A Violet Light & a Hum” EP