“New Release”
The new album
by the band YACHT.
Tagline
Finally, a New Release from YACHT!
Release Date
August 23rd, 2031
Description
New Release is the first studio album from YACHT in five years. Recorded at their home in Los Angeles, the album is a slice of sly post-pop, playfully occupying a parallel timeline somewhere between 1983 and infinity. YACHT are new wave radio rejects; perpetual outsiders; canny observers; dreamer-prophets who average seven years ahead of their time. On New Release, they write about what they know: bubbles in the bathtub, shopping at Sprouts, dissociating while watching TV, side-eyeing the bots, suffering fools, and surveilling half-empty malls, looking for something real. It all comes together in a frisky, genre-transcending opus as formally experimental as it is butt-bumpingly fun.
Features
- 33 Minutes
- Private Label
- Mixed in Stereo
- 10 Screamers, No Duds
- Available on Vinyl & Cassette
- As heard on KCRW & SiriusXM
- From the minds that brought you See Mystery Lights, 5 Every Day, and Broad Band
Release
New Release was launched with a “reverse-preorder” campaign on Metalabel. Fans were able to purchase the vinyl a month ahead of the album’s wide release, bundled with exclusive digital extras; the first edition sold out in 90 minutes. To celebrate the album’s wide release, YACHT opened a retail installation within a gallery in Los Angeles, a “record store” with only one record on display.
Details
YACHT are perpetual outsiders in art, music, tech, and maybe even time itself. This is both a bug and a feature.
For example: YACHT started work on the Grammy-nominated album Chain Tripping in 2017. Their groundbreaking process, which involved custom machine learning models trained on YACHT’s previously-released music, is the subject of the 2024 documentary feature film The Computer Accent.
But after touring the album around the world, performing at film festivals, and speaking at conferences, YACHT lost interest in Artificial Intelligence completely—just as its polarizing popularity reached fever pitch. This is always how it goes for YACHT, who average about seven years ahead of their time.
Their latest, New Release, arrives at a strange time. YACHT’s own prophecies from I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler are incontestable: the world is a mall and our lives are our jobs. What else is there left to do but to make art with your friends?
New Release finds YACHT returning to their effervescent post-pop roots—only weirder and wiser than before. The album thumbs its nose at automation, alienation, and late-capitalist folly, echoing the long line of ancestors YACHT cite as influences: Suburban Lawns, Sparks, Dub Narcotic Sound System, and The B-52s.
Consider New Release a new genre: sophisti-punk with an aerosol blast of freshened air. In 1983, it would have been a runaway hit; in 1995, a college radio instant classic; in 2024, it might be the last New Release of all time.
Tracklist
- The Bubbles (Are Running The Bathtub)
- Low Technique
- Finger In Your Eye
- Two Heads
- Overboogie
- We’re Blowing Out (feat. Jennifer Vanilla)
- Manic Panic
- Shut Up
- Get Ill Soon
- Wake Me Up
"I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T do you know what that mean?"
New Release was written, Performed, Produced, and Recorded by Jona Bechtolt, Claire L. Evans, & Rob Kieswetter at home in Los Angeles. Most of YACHT's previous recordings were released by DFA Records in New York.
New Release is available in limited-edition yellow vinyl, on cassette, high-res digital download, and streaming.
Listen to New Release below: