NOTE: This page is for the TWO-SONG Yowie & Pili Coït “Split” 7” and digital single ONLY. An "Ultimate Edition" bundle containing the “Split” single, the full-length SIX-SONG Yowie & Pili Coït “Split” CD plus digital downloads of all of the songs can be ordered at the Pili Coït page HERE:
pilicoit.bandcamp.com/album/split
All orders also include an exclusive Digital Goodie-Bag by artist Arnulf Roedler, including "print you own" posters, bumper sticker, T-shirt and more!
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“Split”? There’s nothing divisive about it.
“Split” brings together two tremendously inventive bands, that have reinvented themselves once again with their first new songs of 2025. “Split” by Pili Coït and Yowie unveils itself in two distinct permutations - a deluxe two-song 7” colored vinyl record and as a full-length glass-mastered CD.
On “Split”, Lyon France’s minimal love duo Pili Coït fulfill a titillating dream: to go maximal. Following the release of their acclaimed album “Love Everywhere” (DUR et DOUX / SKiN GRAFT Records), Jessica Martin Maresco and Guilhem Meier criss-crossed Europe and performed an unforgettable run of shows in the USA. Then they opened wide, allowing violin, viola, cello, kaval, bass clarinet and tuba to find just the right spot, blending their slinky-squeaky-scintillating sounds with the polyrhythmic arpeggios of the vocalizing guitar-percussion duo.
Pili Coït now sleeps with Les Exocrines, and has become an 8-piece mutant orchestra.
“Pili Coït is a remarkable act – fusing a range of sounds in a manner rarely, if ever, heard in contemporary music. Gloriously melodic … with grungy guitar and fantastic split vocals, this is something refreshingly unique and incredibly engaging” – SONIC ABUSE
With “Karseh”, driven by an obsession with love in all its guises, Pili Coït and Les Exocrines, tackle an Old Testament opuscule and veritable erotic hymn - “The Song of Songs” - where the smells, curves and tastes of fantasized bodies melt into a frenetic, trembling alchemy. Sung in Aramaic, the Persian accent spices up the lyricism of the text to a fever-pitch, breathing new life into ancient melodies… a taste of a thousand and one nights.
The CD delves two songs deeper, going under the sheets to a forbidden place where György Ligeti mingles with Oum Kalthoum, sipping lemon-ginger juice and listening to Portishead.
When we last left Yowie, the band had teamed up with The Jesus Lizard vocalist David Yow as masters of ceremonies on SKiN GRAFT’s “Sounds To Make You Shudder!” Halloween album. Now, the beast has metamorphosed again, this time forming an international lineup, composed of Daniel Kennedy (of Philadelphia’s avant-garde metal act Cleric) and Jack Tickner (of Australia’s microtonal mathcore messiahs Basil’s Kite), along with the OG Defenestrator.
Unmistakably Yowie, this new configuration pushes far beyond boundaries previously uncharted, infusing Yowie’s instantly recognizable approach with a new enthusiasm and energy that baffles and excites listeners, inspiring ass movement en masse.
“The musical prowesses displayed in this amalgamation of forward-thinking and progressive math rock lie as much in the muscles as in the neurons. It challenges, inspires, and mesmerizes, all at once”
- CAN THIS EVEN BE CALLED MUSIC
Recorded before a live audience, “Museum Fatigue” is an ideal introduction, ushering in this new era while, continuing the band’s singular, befuddling style of hyper-composed rock. The expanded CD edition adds another live, in-concert performance of a previously unheard song, as well as a radical reinterpretation of a favorite from their first album, Cryptooology, recorded at WNUR in Chicago.
