Yi-Lynn announces new EP Foul Water out now + launch show at The Gasometer Upstairs Aug 19
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Melbourne’s Yi-Lynn has announced her new EP Foul Water, an exploratory art-pop collection evocative of Fiona Apple and Joanna Newsom, out now. Foul Water follows impassioned singles Pixelate and Just To Feed, both of which garnered warm praise upon release and support from tastemakers at triple j Unearthed, Pilerats, and more. Yi-Lynn will celebrate the release with a launch show at The Gasometer Upstairs on August 19.
The EP Foul Water encapsulates everything that makes Yi-Lynn such a special songwriter. The arrangements, sparse and deliberate, may be gentle and beautiful – but there is no coyness to this record. Yi-Lynn is flexing her power here, knowing that she only needs to whisper to command the attention of the room. Foul Water offers the very best of baroque-pop; unusual structures, exquisite and classic storytelling, and pure, dangerous beauty. Previous single Just To Feed practically hypnotises the listener, while Pixelate almost shakes with feeling as Yi-Lynn grapples with rage and hurt in the aftermath of the 2017 same sex marriage plebiscite.
The rest of the EP moves with similar emotional weight, as Yi-Lynn says to music blog Pilerats, “It feels like the plebiscite was an age ago, but it wasn’t. It just feels like that because there’s been a concerted effort to bury the whole mess under piles of corporate sponsorship and hashtag-pride and “representation matters” tweets.
“The songs on Foul Water are my attempt to excavate that heap of rubble, to get to some truth which has been intentionally obscured. What I found was that I was so, so angry – I still am. And so I wrote these songs, each one of them a little capsule of my emotions. It’s been such a treasure to be able to capture that with a full band and tease out the complexity of those emotions with woodwinds, guitars, percussion, piano and of course voices. I’m very proud of these songs.”
Foul Water will be welcomed into the world with an EP launch show at the intimate Gasometer Upstairs in Melbourne on August 19. Fans are urged to purchase tickets soon to avoid disappointment.
FOUL WATER EP LAUNCH SHOW
FRI AUG 19, THE GASOMETER HOTEL UPSTAIRS MELBOURNE, VIC 18+
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