Yumi Zouma have announced a new album, No Love Lost to Kindness, which arrives on January 30 via Nettwerk. The follow-up to 2022’s Present Tense includes the previously released singles ‘Bashville on the Sugar’, ‘Blister’, and ‘Cross My Heart and Hope to Die’. A moody, cinematic new single called ‘Drag’ is out today alongside a video directed by Yumi Zouma and Julian Vares. Check it out below.
“We wanted the song to feel like slowly rotating in sludge and then screaming the most anthemic chorus at the top of your lungs,” the band explained of ‘Drag’ in a statement. “Hooks from a 1998 issue of Smash Hits are covered with samples and industrial synth arpeggios from the nonexistent soundtrack of the crossover prequel for RoboCop and The Fifth Element, featuring Silverchair, Shihad, Garbage, Stellar*, Evanescence, and Placebo.”
“For months, I was overwhelmed with grief, joy, frustration, acceptance, relief, and struggle. Things didn’t always feel easier post-diagnosis—often harder, even now,” Christie Simpson added. “This song is a signal to my inner child, and a manifestation of acceptance. It’s a goodbye to the life I lived so long ‘inside the drag.’ It’s about releasing myself from the struggle—about letting go.
Commenting on the visual, the band said: “There’s something about the action movies of our youth — The Bourne Identity, Swordfish, Hackers, Enemy Of The State — where digitalisation was exploding, and cell phones like the Nokia 8110 were cinematic icons. We loved how these films romanticised data infrastructures and “the mainframe.”
No Love Lost to Kindness Cover Artwork:
No Love Lost to Kindness Tracklist:
1. 95
2. Bashville On The Sugar
3. Blister
4. Chicago 2AM
5. Cowboy Without A Clue
6. Cross My Heart and Hope To Die
7. Did You See Her?
8. Drag
9. Every False Embrace
10. Judgement Day
11. Phoebe’s Song
12. Waiting For The Cards To Fall
