Now a duo signed to DFA, YACHT have grand plans for See Mystery Lights, their debut for James Murphy’s label. One such plan involves bulging eyeballs (via their Boyd Elder-designed/holographic foil-incorporating album art), another involves a “carefully-crafted mix-tape … of all the songs and ‘songs’ that inspired See Mystery Lights.” On the back of “Summer Song” and the infectious, sandy, sunset jam “Psychic City,” I’ll assume making a key album for 2009 beach parties is one, too. Jona and Claire are being very upfront about the influences on this new one. Start with a listen, then play with the blueprints:
The influences-mixtape is already underway at “The Story of ‘Psychic City,’” where the plan is introduced, detailed, and launched. You can grab MP3 of the K Records song which gives “Psychic City” its lyrics (titled “Voodoo City,” by YACHT friend Rich Jensen) and learn about the other bedrocks for the YACHT track (Althea & Donna, R. Kelly, Brian Eno). The relevant “Psychic City” sound bits are isolated, and also the complete song is presented in instrumental form, for ease of getting deeper into Jona’s brain than you probably need to.
See Mystery Lights is out 7/28 via DFA. So far so good.
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Hasn’t being upfront about theft gotten Jona into enough trouble? Write your own song and get back to us.
Hell yes! Nice work guys! Excited to hear the new album to go with the weather here in PDX.
they are great! all the haters need 2 shut up and take a chill pill!!!!
yacht blow..bigtime
um, wow this girl cannot sing. would be a good song if the awful voice wasn’t so distracting
Can’t wait for see mystery lights. Super fest is going to epic!
fuck i cant stand this track. the constant water droplet sound is horrendous. fuck yacht.
They are great, is horrendous. fuck yacht.
nice song. great job.