Scotland's Yakima release the blissfully tender Thanks from their upcoming debut EP "Go Virtually" that drops April 3rd (2020). The song with it's textured acoustic guitar lines, languid drum beat, bendy electric guitar, small (in a big way) eruptions and hushed broken vocal harmonies appeals to my need for sad things, elegant folk and embraceable works of art. While at first musical glance you might fondly think of Elliot Smith but I hear the ever so semi permeable traces of Pavement and even Dinosaur Jr. and Yuck (circa with Daniel Blumberg) but all expressed in Yakima's unique way. Loving this.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Praise for Yakima
"Don’t be fooled by Yakima’s sun-kissed, woozy sound: it often belies something heavier, even darker." - CLASH
"Yakima are set for greatness. We're calling it already." - DIY
"Wistful, woozy, lo-fi loveliness." - Dork
"The fuzzy guitars are a foundation for the falsetto harmonies, which ring similar to the likes of Elliott Smith and (Sandy) Alex G."
The Line of Best Fit
Yakima return today with brand-new single Thanks, the follow-up to the much-loved recent track It Helped. Where It Helped channeled feelings of helplessness and overcoming addiction to cigarettes, Thanks sees the band resurrect Terror Twilight era Pavement, draping it in a gorgeous piano accompaniment, provided by Jon EE Allan of Happyness. Bassist and vocalist Neil McArthur comments on the track; “Thanks is the result of us trying to be mellow. It's intended for those who give it a listen to close their eyes and imagine us preparing their favourite meal for them in a delicate fashion.”
Yakima have been steadily developing their sound through the release of a handful of ltd single releases and are now finally ready to bring their debut EP “Go Virtually” (April 3rd) into the world. In their relatively short gestation period, they’ve shared bills with the likes of Swimming Tapes, Pottery, and played the first ever YALA! Records night to be held in Glasgow.
Writing and recording their debut EP - with production coming from Benji Compston and Jon EE Allan of acclaimed band, Happyness - it was in the unusual setting of a drafty gatehouse next to a nearby castle (with a ceiling made entirely of spider webs) that the band put the tracks down. It was a setting that was sure to set imaginations running wild - and so it proved. For Yakima, their music is a vessel though which the worlds of reality, perception, imagination and observation all come to be blurred. Woozy lo-fi lullabies and melodic hazes turn from sepia to multi-colour and back again in an instant, as they toy with the often-complex relationship between what’s right in front of you and what’s in your mind. It binds ear-worm melodies to often bleak character analyses.
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