New Entry: YACHT Drop "You Fuck Me Up" (Dub Narcotic Sound System Cover)

LA-based conceptual pop band YACHT have dropped their cover version of Dub Narcotic Sound System 2004 song "You Fuck Me Up".

The band's words: "This is a cover of "You Fuck Me Up," by Dub Narcotic Sound System, a lo-fi funk band named after the recording studio in Olympia, Washington, where many of our friends and extended Pacific Northwest community have recorded albums over the decades for K Records and various other satellite labels. The original vocal on this song is performed by the Olympia underground art-ward multi-instrumentalist staple Heather Dunn (Tiger Trap, Liarbird, Lois, Raincoats, The No-No's, Halo Benders, Dennis Driscoll) whose fantastic and loose performance taps into an undeniable, elemental horniness. It's very alive. "

"This music, and the larger constellation of music that constitutes its scene, has always represented, to us, the very fundamentals of punk. In its infinite capacity to miss the point, Pitchfork called this song "horrifically off-key" and "endlessly bad" back in the day.."

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New Entry: YACHT Reveal "Popularity" (Sparks Cover)

LA-based conceptual pop band YACHT have revealed their cover version of the Sparks classic "Popularity".

The band's words: "Week six of quarantine and now we're dreaming about long nights driving aimlessly around Los Angeles with our friends, pinballing from place to place and feeling the sense of aliveness you get just from being in cars, showing up to parties, leaving, heading somewhere else, to the club, always moving & never going anywhere, detached from time until the night turns to morning. "Popularity" is our favorite song from our favorite Sparks album (1983's "In Outer Space")—a perfect ode to being a vapid LA person going everywhere at once, and to the simple satisfaction of being around other people and feeling popular. By the time we get back out into the world we'll have forgotten what our favorite places are called too. This whole album is perfect and nails a balance of reckless energy and deep loneliness that feels very appropriate to our moment."

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Watch: YACHT Unleash Music Video For "Scatterhead"

LA-based conceptual pop band YACHT have unleashed a mutant televisual hybrid of analog video and artificial intelligence for "Scatterhead".

The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their seventh studio album 'Chain Tripping', which came out in August via DFA RECORDS. Buy it here.

The video was directed by Jennifer Juniper. Watch it below.

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New Entry: YACHT Premiere New Single "Scatterhead"

LA-based conceptual pop band YACHT have premiered their new single "Scatterhead".

The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their upcoming album 'Chain Tripping', which will be out August 30 via DFA RECORDS. 

Watch a lyric video below.

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Watch: YACHT Premiere Music Video For "Hard World"

LA-based conceptual pop band YACHT have premiered the video for their latest single "Hard World".

The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their latest EP 'Strawberry Moon', which came out in October last year. Buy it here.

The video was directed/animated by Mike Hollingsworth. Take a look below.

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WAtch: YACHT Share Music Video For "Shame"

LA-based conceptual pop band YACHT have shared the video for "Shame".

the song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their latest EP 'Strawberry Moon', which came out in October last year. Buy it here.

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New Entry: YACHT Reveal "Space Girl Blues" (Devo Cover)

LA-based conceptual pop band YACHT have revealed their excellent cover version of Devo's "Space Girl Blues".

It features on "Translational Drifts: Moogfest Vol. 1," the first EP in a series of free digital recordings that feature Moogfest artists - past, present and future. 

About the cover, the band have posted: 

Devo are giants to us, because they’re a band with a conceptual stance that goes beyond gimmick. They have a philosophical sensibility that is both deadpan funny and savagely critical—that’s a really difficult line to walk, but we feel like it’s the only way to speak accurately about the 21st century. “Space Girl Blues” is a longtime favorite, a kind of difficult 4-track demo from the late 70s that wasn’t properly released until Hard Core Vol. 1, a collection of those obscurities. In the original, we love how you can hear Devo becoming itself from raw industrial components. Our version, however, is more of an homage to the 1982 cover of this song by Toni Basil, one of the great misremembered female post-punk icons. “Space Girl Blues” is a song about women being aliens, which Basil inverted and owned as a point of pride. We’re interested in feminism’s relationship to science fiction, so the gesture speaks to us.

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Watch: Yacht Share Music Video For New Single "Plastic Soul"

Los Angeles based indie pop group Yacht have released the video for their new single "Plastic Soul".

The song is part of our current playlist and is out now through DFA Records digitally and on limited edition cassette single. Grab your copy here.

About the track, the band explained: "It's 2014, and you've awoken to find yourself alone for the first time in months. Your serotonin levels are at an all-time low. For as long as you can remember, you've been relentlessly battered by millions of corporate dollars targeted directly at your valuable eyeballs. And it's still boring. Snapchat sucks. You've even worn out the most exciting long-player that came wrapped in non-disclosure agreements just to delight you. When you think you're losing it, this is your theme song."

The video was written by the band, and directed by Whitmer Thomas and Clay Tatum. Take a look below.

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