Vinyl LP pressing. Yin Yin's dazzling second album dives even deeper into dancefloor propulsion and space travel atmospherics than their lauded debut The Rabbit that Hunts Tigers (2019). The beautiful, old and somewhat staid city of Maastricht, where the band is based, isn't really conducive to setting up a bustling music scene and it's a place where the outsiders quickly recognize each other. Yin Yin are all Inchnightlife peopleInch, which meant their friendship initially came about through co-organizing and deejaying DIY parties. Things started to move for real when Yves Lennertz and Kees Berkers decided to make a cassette tape that drew on references to Southern and South East Asian music. Once the idea was formed, Lennertz and Berkers wasted no time in taking Incha lotInch of instruments to a rented rehearsal room in a small village near Maastricht. They asked friends to help out, and they became a full band with Remy Scheren on bass, Robbert Verwijlen on keys and Jerome Cardynaals, and Gino Bombrini on percussion. A Inchunited against the worldInch stance is also heard at the end of InchDeclined by UniverseInch. It's a funny, maybe surreptitious statement of belief in what they do. Yin Yin also wanted to create an illusion of strength in other ways InchDeclined By UniverseInch sounds as if there is a large group of people playing, not just the core band. Nods to brilliant, invigorating dance music abound, some of the thumping beats in numbers like InchChong WangInch the title track and InchNautilusInch drop some thumping 1990s-style electric boogie and Italo disco chops along the way. Then there is InchShenzou V.Inch, which plots a stately course between eastern-inflected pop music, Italo, and Harmonia-style electronic meditations. The expansive richness in sound and feel may be down to the fact that more samples, drum computers, and synthesizers are used on T