Yona-Kit LP

Review

Yona-Kit introduces Zeni Geva's K.K. Null to some of Chicago's finest musicians: Null fronts a quartet featuring Jim O'Rourke, Darin Gray, and Thymme Jones (all of Brise-Glace, and various other projects), with Steve Albini producing and Melt-Banana's Yasuko O. dropping vocals in on "Franken-Bitch" (Melt-Banana have also worked with Albini and O'Rourke). The results aren't as noisy or abraisive as Zeni Geva, but Null's influence is felt heavily throughout the buzzy, all-out rock of the recording-- even on the closing track, a 23-minute exploration very much in the vein of Brise-Glace, there are broad touches of Null's signature scratch and grind.