After the successful release of their recent single ‘Hollow Ankles’, Bristol-based melancholic pop duo Yard Arms returns with the follow-up single ‘Pirouettes’, due for release December 3rd.
Forming in 2018, their first year saw them release their hauntingly beautiful debut EP ‘Maiden’, soon followed up by their sophomore EP ‘A Glossary of Broken Humans & Beating Hearts’. Their third studio EP ‘Sanctuary Lines’, described by Atwood Magazine as a “heart-on-sleeve exhaust of emotion” was released in June of 2020.
Pirouettes – recorded, mixed, and mastered with long-term collaborator and producer Josh Gallop (Phoxjaw) at Stage 2 Studios in Bath – is a playful insight around the concept of karma and the fragility of modern-day brain health. ’They’re probably thinking this scene is senseless as well’ encapsulates the track’s theme and the idea that everyone is just as clued-in or perhaps as clueless as the next.
“It’s how we present this to one another that seems to be a great irony”, says frontman and lyricist Noah Villeneuve, who throughout this track, shows an unwavering ability to move between sugary-sweet power-anthem choruses and moments of lyrical tenderness.
Musically, Yard Arms are demonstrating what has become somewhat their signature ’sound’ in this track, evoking the classic 80s influence of The Cure and Echo & The Bunnymen with more present-day indie acts such as The National, Bleachers, and Death Cab For Cutie. A short two minutes-thirty burst of pulsating indie-pop melancholia with synth-laden, alt-romance-rock.
You can find links to their socials/previous music below:
Bandcamp: http://yardarmsmusic.bandcamp.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/yardarmsmusic
Instagram: www.instagram.com/yardarmsmusic
Twitter: www.twitter.com/yardarmsmusic
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0QzOjuzYExeacDzn4AJd5x
Images provided by Memphia Music
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