{"id":22419,"date":"2022-03-18T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=22419"},"modified":"2022-03-16T11:39:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T18:39:50","slug":"22419","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2022\/03\/18\/22419\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: Yumi Zouma drop impressive record despite obstacles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Yumi-Zouma-Present-Tense-1642001117-720x720-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Yumi-Zouma-Present-Tense-1642001117-720x720-1-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Yumi-Zouma-Present-Tense-1642001117-720x720-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Yumi-Zouma-Present-Tense-1642001117-720x720-1.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Yumi-Zouma-Present-Tense-1642001117-720x720-1-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yumi Zouma<br \/>\n<i>Present Tense<br \/>\n<\/i>(Polyvinyl)<br \/>\n4\/5<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Present Tense<\/i> is the fourth album from New Zealand alternative pop quartet Yumi Zouma. Yumi Zouma\u2014who have been together since 2014\u2014faced a lot of obstacles creating this album because of COVID and them having to write music together while living in different countries.<\/p>\n<p><i>Present Tense<\/i> gives off a light-hearted feeling through the music, but the emotional lyrics are what really make the songs special.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This album has a very alternative indie sound that focuses on heartbreak and trying to stay motivated.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>My favourite two songs out of the 10 on the album are \u201cGive It Hell\u201d and \u201cHaunt.\u201d There is variety on <em>Present Tense<\/em>, too\u2014for example, \u201cGive it Hell\u201d gives off more of a pop feel and \u201cOf Me and You\u201d is a soulful duet.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yumi Zouma Present Tense (Polyvinyl) 4\/5\u00a0 Present Tense is the fourth album from New Zealand alternative pop quartet Yumi Zouma. Yumi Zouma\u2014who have been together since 2014\u2014faced a lot of obstacles creating this album because of COVID and them having to write music together while living in different countries. Present Tense gives off a light-hearted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22419"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22437,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22419\/revisions\/22437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}