Yoo Doo Right

Montréal outfit Yoo Doo Right fuse heavy psych, post-rock, and shoegaze into long, animated instrumental passages. Their debut album from 2021, Don't Think You Can Escape Your Purpose, paired dense layers of guitar processing with propulsive rhythms rooted in Krautrock. The follow-up, A Murmur, Boundless to the East, arrived the next year and leaned further into dynamic shifts and open-ended structures.

The group took its name from the extended closing track on Can’s 1969 debut LP and first assembled in Montréal during 2016. The original lineup featured Justin Cober on guitar, synthesizers, and vocals alongside bassist Charles Masson, drummer John Talbot, and keyboardist Charles Bourassa. Their earliest recording, the limited-edition cassette EP Nobody Panicked and Everybody Got On, was tracked at Breakglass Studios, mixed by Taylor Smith and Austin Tufts of Braids, and issued by Second Best Records late in 2016. The subsequent EP2 was captured at Hotel2Tango in 2017, with mixing handled by Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s Efrim Menuck and mastering by Harris Newman.

By 2019 the band had slimmed to the trio of Cober, Masson, and Talbot for the single “The Moral Compass of a Self-Driving Car,” engineered by Sébastien Fournier of Avec le Soleil Sortant de Sa Bouche. In 2020 they joined Japanese psych legends Acid Mothers Temple for a split 7-inch on Mothland Records and contributed the disco-tinged “Marché, Pt. 3,” featuring Jasmine Trails, to the label’s Sounds from Mothland, Vol. 1 compilation. The full-length Don't Think You Can Escape Your Purpose was tracked across Montréal and Québec City before its 2021 release. Second album A Murmur, Boundless to the East followed swiftly in 2022 and contained the sixteen-minute centerpiece “Feet Together, Face Up, on the Front Lawn.”