"Yuk Foo" is a song by English alternative rock band Wolf Alice from their second studio album Visions of a Life.
[3] In May 2017, the band started teasing their return by sending fans on their mailing list cryptic postcards with lyrics and song titles, including "Yuk Foo",[4] which they later posted themselves on their Twitter account.
The band had performed the song previously on 8 April 2016 in Columbus, Ohio as part of their US tour in support of their debut album, My Love Is Cool.
"[9] NME writer Jamie Milton said the song is "an enraged, viciously snarling return, so fury-filled it's capable of leaving you physically shaken," while praising Rowsell's delivery, saying: "Across just two minutes, she howls, grunts and cackles between words.
"[10] Similarly, Dork magazine stated that "Ellie Rowsell is growling, screaming even, her voice straining at the edges as it rips itself apart – equal parts unrelenting attitude and red hot fury.
The spite is as good as another instrument as she calls out the world in increasingly vicious terms," saying that the song is "the all the sass of a militant wing of the Spice Girls inducted into a Nine Inch Nails inspired death cult.
"[12] DIY praised the band, saying the song is "piercing, prescient and precocious as fuck - in its short length 'Yuk Foo' encapsulates pretty much everything that's great about Wolf Alice, and maybe even music itself.
[13] Under the Radar and The Guardian both awarded it as the best track of the week, with the latter publication saying: "Wolf Alice have spat out the most amusingly petulant hate song since Ugly Kid Joe.
"[16] In an interview with Dazed, lead vocalist Ellie Rowsell said "because the song's so fast, heavy and brash, it doesn't really seem to lend itself to a narrative video.