Brighton rockers YONAKA sound freer than ever earlier than on their ‘Welcome to My Home’ EP, shaking off sure ranges of darkness and declaring a buoyant new period of self-assurance.

Stream: ‘Welcome to My Home’ – YONAKA

Tright here’s a sure degree of energy felt in redeeming your self; having to claw your means out of your individual rabbit gap, the singular kind of Hell you’ve put your self via. Whether or not it’s you piling onto your individual self-doubt, or giving an excessive amount of house to those that are greater than keen to offer that doubt for you, solely as soon as you start to separate your self from these calls for can you start to seek out contentment. However it’s a must to be keen to grant your self that latitude.

This level is explored with deft and wit all through YONAKA’s new EP. Launched July 28 by way of LAVA/Republic Data, Welcome To My Home is a punchy however very transient document, clocking in at slightly below 22 minutes, however via every of its 7 songs, the Brighton band are capable of convey what’s hidden inside and being pressured to the floor; it bares innards with no holds barred. The overarching theme of Welcome To My Home is freedom: from social stipulations, from interior requirements you maintain your self to, from boredom, and from criticism, it doesn’t matter what the supply is. It has a fierce want to set down the anxiousness for good and at last bask within the solar.

Opening monitor “By The Time You’re Studying This” units these considerations of freedom into movement; lead vocalist Theresa Jarvis sings about residing within the second, unencumbered by anxiousness or melancholy. She encourages us to cease being victims to our previous and to embrace a mindfulness of staying within the current. Using a peaks-and-valleys format within the manufacturing is nice preparation for what follows within the tracklist; what begins as a confessional rapidly explodes right into a carefree declaration.

By the point the second monitor, “PANIC,” comes round, YONAKA has all however deserted the liberty and has succumbed to the paralyzing expertise of a panic assault. This isn’t to say, although, that free-spiritedness can’t be discovered throughout the darkness. It’s fairly the other. The depth of the worry is complimented by the cheekiness in supply of the verses, and juxtaposed with the lightness of the music. There’s an anthemic, arena-sized refrain that’s very basic pop-rock, begging to be screamed alongside to at a live performance. These low, parenthetical harmonies within the refrain illustrate that “different” voice that may be disruptive to anybody coping with anxiousness or melancholy.

P-A-N-I-C, your empty demise threats ain’t acquired nothin’ on me
I’ll take it to the grave once I R.I.P., once I’m gone
(You good-for-nothing son of a gun, I’ll take you down)
Know your enemy when drowning your soul
‘trigger the drinks are free, and the powder’s lower up
blow all of it on me, c-come on

The title monitor, “Welcome To My Home,” offers a extra intimate glimpse into Jarvis’ interior world. The synths roll in whereas we study of her remorse on leaning into substances for self-medicating and functions of escapism. It’s a naked bones-bearing track, exhibiting us her ugly, prideful, and sinful sides. The track is a show of hospitality on one’s personal phrases; these are the circumstances for entry, and for those who don’t prefer it, GTFO. The change flips on the next monitor. “Give Me My Halo” emphatically seeks redemption from criticism, each exterior and self-directed. This energy ballad, starkly slower and gentler on the midway mark than the songs previous it, calls for a holy cleaning by each fireplace and water.

When the tide comes crashing in
and I’ve acquired nothing left to present
will you deem me match to swim
and can you water me?

The ultimate three songs, “I Need Extra,” “I Don’t Care,” and “Fingers Off My Cash,” are thematically linked, all counterparts to one another. It’s a trilogy about taking energy again for your self, the sentiment rising stronger and stronger via every monitor. The punkiest track on the EP each musically and lyrically, the devil-may-care perspective sidling “I Need Extra” finds us looking for emancipation from routine, bored and stagnated and simply eager to get our means. “I Don’t Care” incentivizes us to develop into an individual who gained’t change their foundations to go well with what others need or want. The title displays the lackadaisical nature of the songwriting, maybe the one weak level within the entirety of Welcome To My Home.

Closing monitor “Fingers Off My Cash” is a enjoyable banger with its biting excessive power and quick tempo. It’s a declaration of being greater than fed up with the expectations, and significantly right here the shortage thereof, positioned upon girls within the music business. Many males, reeling and punch-drunk of their positions of energy, will take all of the credit score with out having finished a lot (or any) of the work.

“I really feel like my place as a lady was neglected when asking for sure must be met, and it is a fuck you to them,” Jarvis has defined concerning the track. It’s an amazing nearer that summarizes, succinctly and piercingly, that central theme of releasing your self from binds which have by no means served you. It’s a sprightly, ball-of-fire dirge to the model of you who would sit demurely and take shit from anybody. These days are over. Welcome to my new period of reclamation.

YONAKA have a number of extra U.Ok. pageant appearances that wrap up in early fall. They’ll be taking part in Studying Competition and Leeds Competition in late August, and Distress Loves Firm in Bristol on the finish of September. Welcome To My Home is on the market to stream on most streaming companies.

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