photograph by Ellie Alonzo

It’s usually been mentioned that robust instances encourage nice music, particularly nice protest music, and Yatsu are a terrific instance to assist corroborate this. The world is on fireplace, and these guys don’t mince any phrases when speaking about it. Or quite, furiously screaming about it on their explosive new album It Can’t Occur Right here (a title taken from a Sinclair Lewis novel), of which we’re proud to give you a full premiere at this time, forward of its official launch on Friday by way of Roman Numeral (CD/tape) and The Ghost Is Clear (vinyl).

Hailing from Dallas-Fort Value and fashioned simply over 4 years in the past, Yatsu’s musical automobile of option to ship their brutally sincere takes on topics resembling gun violence, false allyship, systemic racism, political apathy and others is a uncooked mixture of grindcore and powerviolence, drenched in an excellent quantity of noise. Although the 17-songs-in-23-minutes setup feels acquainted for this sort of factor, the result’s in actual fact atypical and refreshing for the genres in query.

If you happen to can hear your self suppose in any respect in the midst of this whirlwind, attempt to pay particular consideration to trace 10, “It’s Already Occurring Right here” – coming proper after the title-track, it’s truly a noise remix variation of it contributed by Ben Chisholm (Chelsea Wolfe) himself.

Guitarist Lane Oliver says: “”Although the majority of this file was written throughout 2020, its themes are sadly nonetheless related. Systemic racism, fascism, egoism, and performative politics are nonetheless very a lot on show within the US. The title was chosen as a result of it’s a saying that’s really American. We traditionally have deluded ourselves into considering what occurs “over there” may by no means occur right here, and we’re all the time confirmed mistaken.”