Yumi Zouma are a New Zealand alternative pop band from Christchurch, made up of Christie Simpson, Josh Burgess, Charlie Ryder, and Olivia Campion. Originally formed as a long-distance recording project between friends scattered across different cities, the band’s early music carried that sense of distance inside it: soft-focus, intimate, and quietly luminous, with songs that seemed to drift between dream pop, synth-pop, indie, Balearic warmth, and understated electronic detail. Their first releases, EP I and EP II, introduced a delicate but sharply melodic world before Yoncalla, their 2016 debut album, brought the band into a fuller, more polished shape. Willowbank followed in 2017 with a warmer homecoming feel, while EP III in 2018 and Truth or Consequences in 2020 deepened their gift for bittersweet pop songs that sound light on the surface but carry a quiet emotional undertow.

Since then, Yumi Zouma have continued to refine and gently disrupt their own language. Truth or Consequences – Alternate Versions recast the 2020 album through a softer, more reflective lens, while Present Tense expanded their sound across remote recording sessions shaped by movement, separation, and uncertainty. EP IV arrived in 2023 with a slightly more direct, guitar-led energy, before No Love Lost to Kindness, their fifth album, pushed towards something louder, bolder, and more emotionally exposed without losing the band’s instinct for melody and atmosphere.