Frigid_Wind
These dudes do not look like they play this genre of music. And my God do they kill it..and that gatekeeper guitar tone! Hot damn! This album is quite a listen. Get it and impress your friends.
Favorite track: Catastrophic.
Kelvin (Navajo/Diné)
I love this album! It reminds me of a lot of Relapse Records bands combined into one entity. It has a little bit of Burnt by the sun, Mastodon, High on Fire, Lord Dying, Pig Destroyer, and Dillinger Escape Plan. If you love sludgy riffs, galloping drums, screaming vocals, and odd time signatures you’ll dig this album. AOTY contender with every listen.
Favorite track: Catastrophic.
Nashville underground trio YAUTJA make their Relapse Records debut with their highly anticipated new album, "The Lurch". YAUTJA's new album amalgamates metal, punk and noise rock into a ferocious hybrid that has propelled them from the obscurity of the American South onto the international stage.
Recorded by Scott Evans at the legendary Steve Albini's Electrical Audio studio in Chicago, "The Lurch" marks another step forward for the innovative band.
From the opening roar of “A Killing Joke” and the ominous noise waves of “Undesirables” to the churning cannonade of “Before the Foal,” "The Lurch" conveys the personal frustrations and sociopolitical observations of its creators. “We’ve got our bubble of friends and artists and businesses, but you drive 30 minutes out of town and you see confederate flags or people wearing t-shirts that say, ‘Redneck Lives Matter,’” bassist/vocalist Kayhan Vaziri explains. “So there’s a lot of frustration there, and some the lyrics pertain to that.”
Elsewhere on the album, tracks such as "Tethered" and "Wired Depths," discuss the various technologies and systems in place befalling the great populace. Rampant displacement of local communities fuels Vaziri's opening screams in the track aptly titled “Catastrophic” - “Forced under society!”
Featuring members of several other musical projects including Thou, Coliseum, Mutilation Rites and more, YAUTJA's collective experiences across the underground and experimental subgenres drive their unique sound. The band's palpable malaise, malcontent, and sharpened edges are matched by the album's production - the attack of noisy, whirring guitars constantly veering on dissonance are met with a destructive, mangled low end, as they march on to some of the most creative drumming in the genre. "The Lurch" showcases a band that is daring, experimental, and unrelenting.
credits
released May 21, 2021
Engineered and mixed by Scott Evans at Electrical Audio and Antisleep Audio
Additional vocals recorded by Shibby Poole at his house.
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege Mastering Studio
All music and lyrics by Yautja
Tyler Coburn - Drums & vocals
Shibby Poole - Guitar & vocals
Kayhan Vaziri - Bass & vocals
Vocals on A Killing Joke, Clock Cleaner, and The Weight by Kathryn Edwards
Vocals on Before the Foal by David Reichley and Maddy Madeira
Theremin on Before the Foal by Mikey Allred.
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portrayal of guilt takes the sinisterness of black metal and the emotional anchorage of screamo and creates the most evil-sounding, despair-filled, hopeless record you could imagine. Perfectly crafted and always makes me come back for more, I can never get enough of them. Haydin