YACHT YACHT

🎈I guess now's as good of time as any to share a clip of this unfinished and filthy song about eating balloons that we'll probably never finish.

Finger In Your Eye by YACHT

My Idea by YACHT

This is a cover of the 2004 song "You Fuck Me Up," by Dub Narcotic Sound System, a lo-fi funk band named after the recording studio in Olympia, Washington, where many of our friends and extended Pacific Northwest community have recorded albums over the decades for K Records and various other satellite labels.

The original vocal on this song is performed by the Olympia underground art-ward multi-instrumentalist staple Heather Dunn (Tiger Trap, Liarbird, Lois, Raincoats, The No-No's, Halo Benders, Dennis Driscoll) whose fantastic and loose performance taps into an undeniable, elemental horniness. It's very alive.

This music, and the larger constellation of music that constitutes its scene, has always represented, to us, the very fundamentals of punk.

In its infinite capacity to miss the point, Pitchfork called this song "horrifically off-key" and "endlessly bad" back in the day.

Lyrics

Touch my nose and undress my belt
It just the way that we used to felt
It fucks me up night til noon
When will you come again it’s never too soon

You fuck me up, baby
Up down and sideways and back again
You fuck me up, baby
Your shits so good yeah I wish you would

Look through the soles of my shoes for clues
It’s been hot so I ask just what to do
You fuck up from night til to noon
But when you’re gone come back ‘cuz it’s too soon

You fuck me up
Your hair f***s me up

That’s why I creep
That’s why I weep

You fuck me up

South states goes round and round
Old records go round and round
This town goes round and round
Big wheel go rou nd and round

Come take my heart and send it to me
Come here now and you will see
A rabid power my love can be
A rabid power that’s a reason to dance with me

You fuck me up
I can’t get up
I can’t stand up, baby
Round and round I ain’t stop and
You fuck me up
I can’t stand up for the love ‘cuz you got me strung out
I am the one that you want without a doubt
Come on and scrape come on and scream a little more
You fuck me up baby watch me and I head for the door

You fuck me up
I like the way you fuck me up
You fuck me up

Steamy windows
Condensation
Evaporation
Elation

Steamy windows

You fuck me up, baby

Credits

Released May 1, 2020
Recorded, performed, produced, and mixed by YACHT
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk

Week six of quarantine and now we're dreaming about long nights driving aimlessly around Los Angeles with our friends, pinballing from place to place and feeling the sense of aliveness you get just from being in cars, showing up to parties, leaving, heading somewhere else, to the club, always moving & never going anywhere, detached from time until the night turns to morning. "Popularity" is our favorite song from our favorite Sparks album (1983's "In Outer Space")—a perfect ode to being a vapid LA person going everywhere at once, and to the simple satisfaction of being around other people and feeling popular. By the time we get back out into the world we'll have forgotten what our favorite places are called too. This whole album is perfect and nails a balance of reckless energy and deep loneliness that feels very appropriate to our moment.

Lyrics

I like you and you like me a lot
And we do those things that can make us feel hot
Then we join some friends, all of them are all right
And we talk a while, then we climb in our cars

What a night, we all drive into town
Where we'll park our cars, and meet the rest of our friends
At a place that's called, I forget what it's called
But it's really great, and all our friends will be there

Popularity

I like you and you like me a lot
And it's nice to be all alone with you too
But it's also nice being out with our friends
Cause they're all all right, maybe that's why we're friends

Popularity

I feel great, but it's getting real late
So I'll drive you home and you'll slide up real close
I'm so glad we met, and I like you so much
And I'm also glad that I got all those friends

Popularity

Credits

Released April 23, 2020
Recorded, performed, produced, and mixed by YACHT
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk

Support YACHT on Bandcamp: https://yacht.bandcamp.com/track/avril-14th-single

YACHT Quarantine Cover Series No. 4

This is the most beautiful Aphex Twin song, "Avril 14th," from the album Drukqs (2001), composed originally for a high-tech Yamaha player piano called the Disklavier. It's been raining nonstop in Los Angeles and we've been spiraling inwards into all our favorite music; we read Marc Weidenbaum's 33 1/3 book about "Selected Ambient Works" recently and learned that Richard D. James does a lot of his best work in between naps. This is a song for the in-between period of sleep and waking.

Credits:

Released April 14, 2020
Recorded, performed, produced, and mixed by YACHT
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk