“And the reason I think we’re a good match is because you’re disagreeable and I’m disagreeable and we’re both incredibly othered and you don’t seem to have much of an interest in being fucking warm, fuzzy, and user-friendly…You’re already leaning into the fucking othered. You’re occupying spaces that – I’ve been there as a woman – are traditionally held by a certain type of person that isn’t us.” This extract is from Courtney Love’s fangirl interview with Yves for Interview this spring, one of two he has done in the last five years. The reviews for his latest release Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume have been fulsome with praise – “seeking the mysterious nexus where Loveless meets Purple Rain” (Pitchfork), “a deranged beckoning into a free space” (NPR). Tumor also revealed his love for a genre called extratone, “it’s basically techno, but the bpm is sped up to a thousand. It sounds like a humming sound.”
