Cease whatever you’re doing, the new Yawning Man is here!
Yawning Man is one of my favorite bands ever. The band plays fully instrumental desert rock, or stoner rock or to be completely honest I don’t really know the difference because I don’t really care. Yawning Man is dreamy wailing guitars sailing over a landscape of throbbing basslines and sultry drums. Sometimes at breakneck speed, sometimes relaxing. It’s like an American desert god waking up, it’s very empowering music. It never tires me to listen to it, although it’s always basically the same. I cannot get enough of it.
Their new album, Historical Graffiti, has that same unmistakable Yawning Man sound, but with the addition of an accordeon, a violin and an instrument called a mellotron, giving it a very melancholic quality.
The album was recorded in Buenos Aires, Argentine, together with three Argentinian Tango musicians: Sara Ryan (violin), Adolfo Trepiana (accordion) and Malene Arce (mellotron). I love it and have been playing it over and over since its release last week.
I suggest you download it immediately (it costs only seven bucks) and there’s also a vinyl pressing of it, which you may purchase here.
Later on this year a new album by Fatson Jetson will come out, the ‘godfathers of desert rock’ (guitarist Mario Lalli plays bass in Yawning Man), so despite the death of David Bowie, which I’m still devastated about, this is turning out to be a pretty good music year. (PB)
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