Yves Tumor’s shadowy mythos is a beguiling a part of their artistry. Who’s Sean Bowie, actually? At their core, they continue to be an artist who upends a various variety of kinds, all of that are exhausting to summarize in 30 seconds — and that’s the entire level.

In our Fall 2023 Situation, Samuel Hyland breaks down what precisely makes Tumor, and their music, so alluring. From their refusal to substantiate or deny idea to the catharsis of their work, they encourage an excessive amount of hope for all the times we’ve got left. “Tumor’s music features greatest as a psychic mirror, maybe a portal to variations of ourselves we’ve got but to fulfill in actual life,” Hyland writes. “On their finish of the deal, not less than from what we will see, they’ve lengthy graduated into the infinite existence their work preaches of — definitionless, ageless (deepest apologies to all ‘NO WAY YVES TUMOR IS 66 YEARS OLD???’ tweeters), ceilingless. Increasingly more, listening to Tumor, it appears like the one ingredient to our personal infinity — or our understanding of theirs — is being daring sufficient to imagine in it.”

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The all-new pictures by Noah Dillon seize the grittiness of Tumor’s mythology as they pose in parking tons and hallways. As ever, Tumor follows a long-standing custom of not revealing their face on the duvet. Plus, seize an unique variant of their fifth studio album, Reward a Lord Who Chews however Which Does Not Eat; (Or Merely, Scorching Between Worlds).

The Fall 2023 Situation additionally comes with beforehand introduced cowl stars Scowl — out there now in our retailer — and tales on Genesis Owusu, Yeek, and the Rose, amongst others. Keep tuned for extra reveals this week.

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Styling by Peri Rosenzweig

Make-up by Holly Sillius