Yuppie Killer - Cotton Candy

     Rapid, powerful, gritty, and energetic are words that only give you a mild idea of what this band sounds like because you have to listen it to fully grasp everything that Yuppie Killer is. They are a four piece hardcore band from Seoul, Korea that play fast and raw hardcore punk layered with many influences like powerviolence, surf rock and punk, thrash, and shoegaze. Normally when a band lists so many genre influences I become skeptical but YK projects all of their influences very clearly which makes for really dynamic and interesting music. 
     If you have read punk and hardcore lyrics in the past year or two they may all seem a little homogeneous but Yuppie Killer takes hardcore-punk lyricism to its roots and yells about a variety of topics ranging from cops to the geography of Korea. It's really refreshing to listen to lyrics that aren't all about posers and people who stabbed other people in the back. 
     The Cotton Candy EP is a follow up to their debut LP Corruptions, and it was released earlier this month making it their third release in the 2 years. YK has carried over they're strengths from their previous releases and amplified it, making an amazing 7 song EP that will blow you away. There's no reason why you shouldn't listen to this because its between 10-11 minutes long and you'll be a happier person after you do. 
     In their bio on Facebook they claimed that "Yuppie Killer was an experience best witnessed in the flesh" and from the videos I've seen, I believe it. It would really be great to see this band live so I may start planning a vacation to Korea unless somebody would like to book them in the States. I think you should. 

Here's a link to their Bancamp where you can listen to Cotton Candy 

and all of their other releases. 

Here's a video of them playing live @ Double A Studios in Seoul