Live Window Shopping
Live-streaming the final days at The New Release Store
NEW RELEASE IS OUT NOW
First of all, yes! The album is out now on streaming. Add it to your library if you haven’t already. Here it is on Apple Music, on Spotify and Bandcamp. Here’s the vinyl on Metalabel, and here we are on Google Maps, just for fun! If these text links are just washing over you, click the smiling sun for our handmade Linktree:
STORE CLOSING
As you may have seen, we installed a store in a gallery on Pico Boulevard here in Los Angeles. It’s open for another day if you’d like to come by. And if you can’t come visit in person, don’t fret! Tomorrow at noon PT, we’ll be hosting a livestream from the store on Instagram. We’ll be selling the last of the one-off t-shirts Jona made—as well as ringer tees, tapes, and a very special coffee—and showing you around the store. No big deal! Follow us on Instagram.
THE NEW RELEASE HOTLINE
The older we get, the more certain we are that YACHT operates on a different time scale. You’ve heard us joking about being seven years ahead of our time™. What we mean by that is that sometimes it takes seven years for the things we make to find their audience—but when they do, it hits.
For example: we set up a voicemail box and invited people to call and leave reviews of the new album. Last night we got a long voicemail from a person in Las Cruces, New Mexico who found us eight years ago through GTA 5 (we’ve got a song in the game) and has been following us ever since. He seemed genuinely baffled as to why exactly he loves us so much; he self-identifies as a Slayer fan. He told us all about how music saved his life. This is the kind of thing, truly, that we live for.
Nearly every caller who has left us a message has signed off with “well, love you, bye.” We love you too! If you’d like to leave a message, the lines are open.
HOT NEW INTERVIEW
We had a great conversation with our friend John Chiaverina, who runs the best music publication on Substack, John’s Music Blog. We talked about our roots in the Pacific Northwest DIY scene, what IDM Jona likes, and early oughts radio rap.
You can read the whole interview on Nina.
You can also buy the album on Nina if you’re into that kind of thing!
SELECT REVIEWS FROM PRESS & VOICEMAIL
These tales of bathtubs, lapsed punks, and urban ennui are set to nervy new wave reminiscent of Suburban Lawns, Method Actors and of course The B-52s and Devo. They call it “sophisti-punk,” a genre name I actually kinda love. The music is fun and catchy, and the lyrics are great…it’s good they’re here with us, challenging technology and other questionable life improvements and urging us to dance as we all get older.
— Brooklyn Vegan
The rock and roll highway is scattered with the corpses of bands who lacked the imagination to go the distance, but YACHT is not that kind of band.
— John Chiaverina, Nina
Album is great. I think Overboogie is my favorite, but it's all so good. Love you guys.
— Voicemail (630 area code)
I give the New Release album by 10 out of 10. I haven't heard it yet. But after I hear it, if I don't give it 10 out of 10, I'm going to punch myself in the freaking face.
— Voicemail (215 area code)
I’m dancing at work to you guys. No one's ever heard of you guys. I don’t even know who you are, I just love your music so much!
— Voicemail (575 area code)
“Manic Panic makes my brain happy. Thanks YACHT!”
— Voicemail (714 area code)
Hello, I have a complaint about the album. The lead song is called “The Bubbles Are Running The Bathtub.” The lyrics are actually “the bubbles, they are running the bathtub.” I think that's unconscionable. Other than that, I love the album.
— Voicemail (916 area code)
We will for sure be cutting some of these voicemail gems into a video, so stay tuned for that. And speaking of videos, check out this one and this one from the New Release Store.
Love,
Jona, Claire, and Rob
nothing from 503!!?!?
916, represent! 😉