yarn. and the broken burn out of "Ashley Evermore"

 

"tell me how to choose..."

"Ashley Evermore" feels like a chill jazz colored breezy house party while you sip libations staying firmly in the background looking longingly at a fetching person who is doing the same thing in the opposite corner. Right about when cool crooning, almost aloof vocal aesthetic, starts to wail about the same time the formerly chill guitar starts spewing psyche rock lead bangers, you and the fetching one lose all inhibitions and start dancing together on the coffee table. Don't worry it is a sturdy table. All of the sudden as the wailing lead guitar begins its climactic finish and the vocalist screams even louder, "burn baby, burn baby, buuurrrrrn!", you both sprout wings and fly off together in the sunset. That is what "Ashley Evermore" by yarn. feels like to me. Like a jazz party that ascends into a hallucinogenic blues psychedelic dream.

Ashley Evermore is about estrangement from those that you most love - yarn.

yarn. is Liam Manion (guitar), Sawyer Bush (guitar), Sophia Calder (vocals), Eden Forbes (bass) and Miles Schulman (drums).

-Robb Donker Curtius

yarn. · Ashley Evermore

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The band yarn. was born out of a single phrase: “wait man, jot that down.” Guitarists Liam Manion and Sawyer Bush began playing together in 2018 in a college dorm room, with painted Washburn acoustic guitars and incense burning in the background. Inspired by the crumbling, under-maintained walls around them, they wrote songs that captured the often understated minutiae and isolation of college life. The tattered notebook from Manion’s childhood slowly overflowed with want-to-be poetry, complemented by Bush’s bluesy stylings and musical intuition.

The duo performed shows at colleges and open mics around the area before connecting with singer and a cappella superstar Sophia Calder. Her voice, reminiscent of neo-jazz artists like Noah Jones and Donna Missal presented the missing piece to their puzzle. In the end of 2020, along with bassist Eden Forbes and drummer Miles Schulman, they established the name yarn. and continued to play shows together, but this time with a fully defined roster. The chemistry immediately clicked, and the band was inspired to take the next step forward with their music. They recorded a series of songs in basements remotely, the first of which, “Pretty Girls” was released on March 26, 2021.

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