Yppah will release his new album, Eighty One, on 2 April 2012 (3 April in NA).

Landscape and memory have always played a central part in the music of Joe Corrales Jr. aka Yppah (pronounced “yippah”) - his third album for Ninja Tune reflects a change in the landscape around him. Midway through the process of creating Eighty One, Corrales started making regular trips to Galveston, on the Texas Gulf coast, to surf. So energised was he by his experiences, he left his home in Texas and moved to Long Beach, California. He says that “I wanted a lot of the songs to feel like a warm wash”.

This is the warmest, most uplifting music he has made yet. The record takes its title from the year Corrales was born and stirred up “memories from random times in my life. Like I was trying to recreate certain feelings I had at different points in my life with melodies, if that makes any sense.” And he goes on to ask, “You know how when you’re a child you feel your life has a certain melodic theme that you can’t really put your finger on and you can almost hear it, but its not anything you’ve ever heard before?” Eighty One is his attempt to capture those melodies.

The last piece in this act of reinvention is the presence of Anomie Belle, a singer, producer and classically trained violinist based in Seattle. The pair met when Yppah was touring with Bonobo in 2010, and Corrales contributed a remix to Belle’s album, The Crush. In return, she listened through demos of Eighty One

to see if she could find a track which she could add something to. In the words of Yppah, “it was such a natural fit she ended up doing four!”

Beautiful, uplifting and imbued with a natural, unaffected warmth that cuts through the most biting cold, Eighty One is Yppah’s most satisfying work yet. The album will be released on LP, CD and download and can be pre-ordered now exclusively at the Ninjashop.

You can grab a free download of "D. Song" right now at ninjatune.net/yppah.