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Yoshimi P-We sure likes to keep herself busy. When she's not drumming for brutal noise rockers Boredoms, hammering toms in drumming troupe OLAbi, or noise-making with Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon in ... Lees meer

Fourteen years and six albums on from the day that YoshimiP-We pulled together a fictional all-female band for a magazine article, OOIOOcontinues its euphoric, drum-pounding, girl-chanting adventur... Lees meer

Japanese all-female group and Boredoms offshoot OOIOO's fifth album, 2006's Taiga, holds a more than respectable score of 78 on Metacritic, but it split Pitchfork listeners. The percussion heavy, o... Lees meer

It's rare, and usually a cop-out, to say so, but this is music so complete that it just is. Pile up the praise (it's fun, virtuoso, syncretic, energising) and you'll sound vague; pull it apart and ... Lees meer

WhenYoshimi P-We, all-girl noise band OOIOO’s formidable frontwoman, isn’t Battling Pink Robots on The Flaming Lips album of the same name, she’s popping up in the unlikeliest of places. You ... Lees meer

Spanish and Swahili seem like a strange combination of languages for a Japanese rock band, but for noise rockers OOIOO, it’s an oddly suitable choice. Armonico Hewa, OOIOO’s sixth full-length album... Lees meer

For those of you who haven’t been swept through OOIOO’s previous free-fall experiments, the band is a Boredoms offspring, all-female wonder. Yoshimi P-We, member of the noise extravagants and d... Lees meer

Although OOIOO (pronounced oh-oh-eye-oh-oh) provides the tallest platform for the towering visions of Yoshimi P-We, her role in the all-woman quartet is only her third most recognisable status. She... Lees meer

We just reviewed the latest album from OOIOO, which included “OOIAH”. Our Richard Elliott described this track in particular as “a splendid singalong of happy nonsense that mutate... Lees meer

Armonico Hewa takes the excellence of 2006’s already phenomenal Taiga and refines it to the point where it seems like the band’s music is trying less to be music than it is to be Dilaud... Lees meer