Centered on boundless creativity and a drive for open dialog, YONAKA are a band targeted on feeling.

Rising by the ranks of the scene during the last six years, their progressive mix of pop, punk, hip-hop, and various has seen the Brighton trio attain exceptional heights. From collaborating with Carry Me The Horizon and FEVER 333 to dominating pageant phases throughout the UK, their frenzied sonic imaginative and prescient has proved inconceivable to classify or label, guided by vocalist Theresa Jarvis’ deeply confessional songwriting.

Delving into themes of psychological well being, empowerment, and the realities of our existence, YONAKA have change into outlined by Theresa’s heart-on-sleeve method to penning lyrics. Utilizing music as a way to make sense of her personal private experiences, it’s a sentiment that shines on the band’s newest EP, ‘Welcome To My Home’. To have a good time its launch, Theresa talks Rock Sound by ten YONAKA lyrics that sit particularly near her coronary heart.

“Let hell rain down on my life and permit me to develop”, ‘Give Me My Halo’ – ‘Welcome To My Home’ (2023)

“This lyric is about going by exhausting instances to get to the opposite facet. If I’ll come out the opposite facet grown and with a greater understanding, then I’m prepared to be put by something. By ache, we discover the sunshine. It’s in these moments that we discover the energy we didn’t even know we had. 

On the time I wrote this I used to be struggling, and I used to be like, ‘What do I’ve to do to really feel good?’ I believe that’s a query lots of people ask themselves, and that lyric simply got here out. I didn’t actually have to consider it. I must expertise one thing that’s going to alter my thoughts, how I react to issues, and the way I really feel about issues. It would should be a large life change or a load of smaller adjustments, but when that’s what I’ve to do, then let that be.”

“Received me a bitch with a gun for a mouth, however I get bruised when all of it goes south”, ‘Arms Off My Cash’ – ‘Welcome To My Home’ (2023)

“Within the music trade you pay individuals to guard you, like attorneys and stuff. You may have all these individuals, but when issues don’t go proper, or the stuff you’ve requested for don’t occur, it’s really solely you that has to undergo. 

As a band, you have got lots of people working for you, however in addition they have quite a lot of different individuals who they’re working for. You really want to concentrate on your self and belief your instinct on quite a lot of issues as a result of if it doesn’t work, it’s solely going to be fucked up for you. Everybody else has different stuff happening, however that is my entire life, my entire dream, and my profession. 

We’ve been doing this for a very long time now, and we’ve been working with completely different labels for about seven years. There are specific issues that you just ask for, like your rights in relation to conserving music, and generally they don’t get met. When that occurs, you’ve ended up paying £10,000 to have one thing written up, and it by no means occurs. Everybody desires to take, take, take, and that’s not cool.”

“Take off your masks and present me your coronary heart // I need to rip it to items // I do know it would harm however I promise you that you’ll all the time keep in mind this sense”, ‘By The Time You’re Studying This’ – ‘Welcome To My Home’ (2023)

“You may have this masks that you just placed on to point out the world who you’re and what your life is, particularly on social media. All the things is all the time excellent on social media, and other people additionally change the best way they act in entrance of various teams of individuals. They tailor their persona and the issues they like across the individuals they’re with, and it’s so fucked. 

The best factor you could be is your self. In the event you have been your self all the time, you’d expertise all the pieces within the current second. You can really feel ache and love in probably the most intense methods, and that’s stunning. That’s the way you’re presupposed to stay, and that’s the way you’re presupposed to really feel these issues. 

This lyric is saying that should you present me who you’re, I in all probability will break your coronary heart, however you’ll all the time keep in mind it. You gained’t keep in mind quite a lot of issues, however you’ll keep in mind the best way you have been in love and the best way you had your coronary heart ripped out of your chest. I believe we have to get pleasure from our emotions and actually be within the second.”

“I replicate similar to a mirror // You need assistance, however I can’t hear ya”, ‘Welcome To My Home’ – ‘Welcome To My Home’ (2023)

“I give quite a lot of my time and persistence to individuals in my life. I really feel like I’m a very good listener, and I really feel like I give good recommendation. Nevertheless, I discovered that if I needed to speak or specific my emotions it might usually get masked by the sentiments of whoever I used to be speaking to. It will all the time be about them, so I used to be by no means getting the time and house to speak about how I felt. 

There was additionally a sure particular person in my life who would change off and look away each time I’d begin speaking. I used to be like, ‘Are you fucking joking?’, and I began giving that vitality again. I realised that not everybody really deserves your time and vitality. Understanding that provides you a lot extra self-worth. I minimize off my feelings to sure individuals, and it was a very good factor to do.

Once you’re youthful you all the time hear individuals say issues like, ‘Oh, you gained’t care about that once you’re older’. There’s quite a lot of fact to that and rising up is a stupendous factor. Once you’re older, you realise there are some issues that you just really don’t need to do and a few individuals who you don’t actually need to discuss to. You’re feeling assured reducing these issues out in the event that they aren’t going to learn your life. Some individuals simply need to suck each ounce of vitality out of you, and it takes you a second to grasp that.”

“Scribble out and begin once more, designer // Paint an image for my pals, I’m a liar”, ‘I Don’t Care’ – ‘Welcome To My Home’ (2023)

“You can make up something about your self, you would transfer to a special place and change into this entire completely different particular person. I believe that’s unbelievable, however on the similar time it doesn’t change something since you’re nonetheless who you’re. All the things nonetheless follows you, so no matter you say will all the time be a lie. I like the thought of working away and changing into somebody completely different. You can do something, and nobody would know the actual you. Then you would transfer on to the subsequent place and make a brand new identification. There are all these prospects, however regardless of how far I run away from it, I nonetheless have these issues.

This lyric explores that, and in addition how I’ve sure pals who will change round completely different individuals. I like them after I see them on their very own, however round different teams of pals they act otherwise. I don’t prefer it after they’re attempting to be another person or performing up, as a result of it’s not the actual model of them.”

“Grave shift employee, now I’m my very own boss // Oh, it was by no means sufficient // My evening paralysis screams however no person wakes up”, ‘PANIC’ – ‘Welcome To My Home’ (2023)

“That entire tune is about having a panic assault and being tremendous anxious. Regardless that I’m transferring up in my work life and holding extra energy, I’m really nonetheless the identical particular person experiencing the identical shitty issues. I’ve the identical panic assaults and the identical evening paralysis, and while issues may change on the skin, on the within it’s nonetheless the identical. 

Simply because you may’t see it from the skin doesn’t imply it’s not there. Somebody messaged me lately and mentioned, ‘How are you going to undergo this after which get on stage?’ I’m on stage for half-hour, however I’ve the remainder of every day to undergo all that. 

After I wrote the tune, I put a video out the place I walked a bit of bit about my journey, and somebody really questioned me on it. They have been like, ‘This isn’t anxiousness or a panic assault, you’ve by no means skilled that’. I believed, ‘How dare you inform me what I’ve skilled?’ Folks actually do not know, and I think about they have been in all probability in a crappy place to have written one thing like that, so I left it. Simply because it’s not seen to everybody else, it doesn’t imply it’s not there. Issues could also be going effectively in some points of your life, however that doesn’t imply that all the pieces else is ok.”

“Safety simply ain’t for me if it runs dry”, ‘I Need Extra’ – ‘Welcome To My Home’ (2023)

“I don’t need to work a 9 to 5 job simply because it means I’ve received a wage coming on the finish of it. I don’t need to work myself into the bottom simply to pay my lease and go on one vacation yearly. If meaning I can’t do these issues, then that’s effective, I’d relatively be joyful.

I meet individuals on a regular basis, particularly individuals of their fifties and sixties, they usually’ve all the time labored a job that’s made them depressing. It makes me unhappy as a result of your happiness is definitely the important thing to life. In the event you’re not joyful and also you’re simply trudging alongside to attempt to make issues work, it doesn’t make sense. 

All of us must work, and I wouldn’t be capable of stay in a home if I didn’t work. I had 14 jobs earlier than I began doing music, so I do know it’s important to do it. I simply assume we have to discover a center floor the place you may nonetheless stay and be joyful, relatively than dedicating your life to working for the person.”

“I swear I could be good // And fairly like a storm // Calm just like the ocean, tender just like the air // And heat like summer time rain”, ‘Welcome To My Home’ – ‘Welcome To My Home’ (2023)

“That is the primary time that I’ve talked about myself in a delicate manner, and it appears like a poem. I believe it’s one of many prettiest issues I’ve ever written, and after I sing it, I’ve this little sparkle in me.

Nature is probably the most fantastic factor on the earth, and I believe it’s very easy to overlook how stunning all the pieces is once you’re outdoors. These phrases contact on that, and the way I really forgot who I used to be. I forgot the great issues about myself, and thru the entire of that tune I’m speaking about myself in fairly a unfavorable method. I’m choosing out all of the issues which are flawed with me and all of the issues I don’t like about myself, however then right here I discuss myself in a very stunning manner. Once you’re feeling low these moments of self-love are fleeting, however when that second of readability comes round it’s like, ‘Oh my god, I haven’t felt like this in ages’. I do have all these good qualities, however I simply overlook about them.” 

“They’re not courageous such as you // They’re too scared to do something that’s completely different // Something that’s new”, ‘Seize The Energy’ – ‘Seize The Energy’ (2021)

“I really feel like I solely began changing into my very own particular person after I completed college. There’s a lot stress once you’re youthful and also you stroll into city as a result of everybody’s carrying the identical factor, and everybody seems the identical. You change into scared to be any completely different, however once you lastly get that braveness to be your self it’s stunning. You realise that the leggings that everybody else wears simply aren’t for you, you begin carrying what you need to put on, and you discover your personal vibe.

I’m from a small city, and other people would stare at you and touch upon the way you look as a result of they’re scared to behave otherwise and gown otherwise. I believe it’s actually stunning once you discover the braveness to try this and be who you’re. I believe everybody’s scared to take that step, and possibly that’s why individuals don’t get their very own identification till in a while in life, nevertheless it’s so unbelievable.” 

“I can’t get simply what I need except I do all of it myself”, ‘Arms Off My Cash’ – ‘Welcome To My Home’ (2023)

“You’re by yourself, and also you’re all the time going to do one of the best job relating to something that you really want. Nobody else cares as a lot as you, nobody else is gonna work across the clock to your goals, and nobody can see inside your mind. You may attempt to describe it, however nobody can see it. Until you do it your self, it’s not going to be excellent. 

I get offended as a result of individuals can’t see precisely what I need. I believe collaborating is de facto essential, however there are such a lot of small issues the place I’ve to undergo three completely different individuals to elucidate one thing. Each has to move on the message, and it’s all the time gonna get misplaced in translation. You waste all this time speaking to all of those individuals to get the flawed reply, and also you simply need to do all of it your self. All the things takes sufficient time as it’s, so let’s simply minimize out the center man.” 

‘Welcome To My Home’ is out on July 28 through Republic Data.