Yak playing the Night And Day in Manchester (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
Yak have unveiled some new music and details of a UK tour booked for October.
White Male Carnivore is a slice of brand new material after last year’s All I Need Is Some Sunshine In My Life single carried two covers – the lead track being from Dixie Nightingales and the b-side Wait And See by Lee Hazelwood. Further back, it was 2016 which delivered the debut album Alas Salvation, of which Live4ever said:
“‘Curtain Twitcher’ re-establishes the band’s signature frantic, oft-kilter nature as Burslem’s electrifyingly sloppy vocal carries the track with an admirable vigor, however the following hypnotic ‘Take It’ sees the trio coiling back into unpredictability as Rawson’s finesse drumming impels this middling track.”
“The back half of the record starts strong as lead single ‘Habour The Feeling’ blitzes though a melodic and vicious avalanche of screeching guitar feedback. Its pendulum swinging swaggering rhythm is a rumbling garage thump that encompasses and ultimately envelops the listener. ‘(Interlude II)’ and the title-track remain vital taste cleansers as the former shimmers and the latter crushes, while closer ‘Please Don’t Wait For Me‘ sways and slides underneath a hazy waltz before building and crashing and resurfacing as a toe-tapping country-tinged ballad.”
The tour opens up in York on October 23rd and will head through to early November with gigs in Southampton, Brighton and London.
Tour dates:
October
23 – York, Crescent
24 – Newcastle, Think Tank
25 – Edinburgh, Sneaky Pete’s
26 – Sheffield, Picture House Social
27 – Manchester, Deaf Institute
30 – St Albans, Horn
31 – Bristol, Exchange
November
1 – Southampton, Heartbreakers
2 – Brighton, Haunt
7 – London, Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club