YUMI ZOUMA Release New Single ‘In The Eyes Of Our Love’
Infectiously upbeat and attentively produced, this groovy track is bursting with heart, soul and good vibes in abundance.

Photo: Aaron Lee & Alex Evans
Comprised of vocalist/guitarist Josh Burgess, Charlie Ryder on guitar, bass and keys, vocalist/keyboardist Christine Simpson and Olivia Campion on drums, Yumi Zouma are an international alt-pop band hailing from New Zealand. Released via Polyvinyl on the very same day that the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, Yumi Zouma’s acclaimed album Truth or Consequences was meant to be celebrated with the band’s first sold-out headline North American tour but the universe had other plans. Instead, Yumi Zouma went their separate ways, returning to their individual homes in Wellington, Christchurch, London and New York, which was very “disorienting” for the fourpiece, since they usually averaged a record a year.
Now nearly two years into the pandemic, Yumi Zouma have announced the release of their highly-anticipated fourth album Present Tense, which will arrive via Polyvinyl on Friday, 18th March. Preceding this eagerly-awaited album, alongside previous singles Give It Hell and Mona Lisa, their latest track In The Eyes Of Our Love is a rapidly-paced, romantic and rousing indie number.
Charlie Ryder shares:
Recorded at 204bpm, ‘In The Eyes Of Our Love’ is a rip-roaring belter of a track and the fastest song we’ve ever written. What started out as an homage to Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift ended up as a love song set against a backdrop of torture and insurrection stoked by the Nixon administration, so if you like songs with two bridges and strong socialist leanings, then ‘In The Eyes Of Our Love’ could be the track for you!
In The Eyes Of Our Love doesn’t arrive alone, though; the track is accompanied by the first of three spellbinding music videos, directed by filmmaker Alex Ross Perry. Streaming now via YouTube, the first set of vibrant visuals is an entrancing beginning to the conceptual trilogy of videos.
Perry opens up about the music video trilogy:
Agreeing to make three interconnected videos was something I should have thought about for longer than 15 seconds before agreeing to it. The anxiety of conceptualizing a small story, that can be told without dialogue, and set to music, gripped me from the moment my video call with the band ended. Their thoughts were excellent, specific, and unachievable with the time and resources I would be able to pull together. But I began to feel inspired by the concept of taking these vast ideas and situating them within a single location, transforming the aesthetic, visuals and mood to match the three different songs. My only chance for success was to rely heavily on a great cast and crew to create these spaces and film them in a way that felt consistently alive and unique. Fortunately for me, they all over delivered.