PTP mainstay YATTA finally follows 2019's ace 'WAHALA' with a suite of genre-bending experimental pop peppered with intimate personal reflections. Features collaborations with PC Music's felicita, Cupcakke producer So Drove, Princess Nokia producer Carlos Hernandez and others.
Over the last five years, YATTA has made their way across the country and across the pond, wandering, philosophizing and figuring out their relationship to their art - and to God. 'PALM WINE' is the result of that journey, a sequence of tracks that was recorded in London, LA, Houston and NYC that captures an important period of evolution in the artist's life. The name of the album is a reference not just to the West African genre, but the alcoholic drink and Samuel Ervin Beam's Iron & Wine, and there's a little of each sprinkled on the 14 tracks. It's a very different YATTA we hear on opener 'Circle'; with help from producer Myles Avery, they thread their soaring voice through rumbling kicks and skeletal synths, layering it into rhythmic, choral clusters that are shattered by the 'Whatsapp Interlude', bringing us from fantasy into lived reality. And when we reach 'Disappear', the mood has shifted again; co-produced by felicita, this one's more peaceful somehow, with a lonely piano mapping out YATTA's internal world and tear-jerking vocals providing the heart.
'PALM WINE' keeps shifting rapidly, dipping into jazzy soul on 'EPKWY' - a chance for YATTA to show their vocal range - and carnivalesque neo-R&B on 'Fully Lost, Fully Found', and YATTA's lo-fi asides, like 'Enya at the Market' and 'Mood', are pasted in like tickets in a scrapbook. On 'MTV', So Drove, Carlos Hernandez and Maxime Morin help fill out YATTA's '90s moment, engineering a pop-punk banger that sounds strangely relevant - and that YATTA revisits, splicing it with different vocal takes on 'MTV2'. This odd repetition helps us unspool some of the themes - YATTA is confidently deconstructing their musical language, digging through hazy memories and bringing them into the here and now. We're lucky to be invited along for the ride.
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PTP mainstay YATTA finally follows 2019's ace 'WAHALA' with a suite of genre-bending experimental pop peppered with intimate personal reflections. Features collaborations with PC Music's felicita, Cupcakke producer So Drove, Princess Nokia producer Carlos Hernandez and others.
Over the last five years, YATTA has made their way across the country and across the pond, wandering, philosophizing and figuring out their relationship to their art - and to God. 'PALM WINE' is the result of that journey, a sequence of tracks that was recorded in London, LA, Houston and NYC that captures an important period of evolution in the artist's life. The name of the album is a reference not just to the West African genre, but the alcoholic drink and Samuel Ervin Beam's Iron & Wine, and there's a little of each sprinkled on the 14 tracks. It's a very different YATTA we hear on opener 'Circle'; with help from producer Myles Avery, they thread their soaring voice through rumbling kicks and skeletal synths, layering it into rhythmic, choral clusters that are shattered by the 'Whatsapp Interlude', bringing us from fantasy into lived reality. And when we reach 'Disappear', the mood has shifted again; co-produced by felicita, this one's more peaceful somehow, with a lonely piano mapping out YATTA's internal world and tear-jerking vocals providing the heart.
'PALM WINE' keeps shifting rapidly, dipping into jazzy soul on 'EPKWY' - a chance for YATTA to show their vocal range - and carnivalesque neo-R&B on 'Fully Lost, Fully Found', and YATTA's lo-fi asides, like 'Enya at the Market' and 'Mood', are pasted in like tickets in a scrapbook. On 'MTV', So Drove, Carlos Hernandez and Maxime Morin help fill out YATTA's '90s moment, engineering a pop-punk banger that sounds strangely relevant - and that YATTA revisits, splicing it with different vocal takes on 'MTV2'. This odd repetition helps us unspool some of the themes - YATTA is confidently deconstructing their musical language, digging through hazy memories and bringing them into the here and now. We're lucky to be invited along for the ride.
PTP mainstay YATTA finally follows 2019's ace 'WAHALA' with a suite of genre-bending experimental pop peppered with intimate personal reflections. Features collaborations with PC Music's felicita, Cupcakke producer So Drove, Princess Nokia producer Carlos Hernandez and others.
Over the last five years, YATTA has made their way across the country and across the pond, wandering, philosophizing and figuring out their relationship to their art - and to God. 'PALM WINE' is the result of that journey, a sequence of tracks that was recorded in London, LA, Houston and NYC that captures an important period of evolution in the artist's life. The name of the album is a reference not just to the West African genre, but the alcoholic drink and Samuel Ervin Beam's Iron & Wine, and there's a little of each sprinkled on the 14 tracks. It's a very different YATTA we hear on opener 'Circle'; with help from producer Myles Avery, they thread their soaring voice through rumbling kicks and skeletal synths, layering it into rhythmic, choral clusters that are shattered by the 'Whatsapp Interlude', bringing us from fantasy into lived reality. And when we reach 'Disappear', the mood has shifted again; co-produced by felicita, this one's more peaceful somehow, with a lonely piano mapping out YATTA's internal world and tear-jerking vocals providing the heart.
'PALM WINE' keeps shifting rapidly, dipping into jazzy soul on 'EPKWY' - a chance for YATTA to show their vocal range - and carnivalesque neo-R&B on 'Fully Lost, Fully Found', and YATTA's lo-fi asides, like 'Enya at the Market' and 'Mood', are pasted in like tickets in a scrapbook. On 'MTV', So Drove, Carlos Hernandez and Maxime Morin help fill out YATTA's '90s moment, engineering a pop-punk banger that sounds strangely relevant - and that YATTA revisits, splicing it with different vocal takes on 'MTV2'. This odd repetition helps us unspool some of the themes - YATTA is confidently deconstructing their musical language, digging through hazy memories and bringing them into the here and now. We're lucky to be invited along for the ride.
PTP mainstay YATTA finally follows 2019's ace 'WAHALA' with a suite of genre-bending experimental pop peppered with intimate personal reflections. Features collaborations with PC Music's felicita, Cupcakke producer So Drove, Princess Nokia producer Carlos Hernandez and others.
Over the last five years, YATTA has made their way across the country and across the pond, wandering, philosophizing and figuring out their relationship to their art - and to God. 'PALM WINE' is the result of that journey, a sequence of tracks that was recorded in London, LA, Houston and NYC that captures an important period of evolution in the artist's life. The name of the album is a reference not just to the West African genre, but the alcoholic drink and Samuel Ervin Beam's Iron & Wine, and there's a little of each sprinkled on the 14 tracks. It's a very different YATTA we hear on opener 'Circle'; with help from producer Myles Avery, they thread their soaring voice through rumbling kicks and skeletal synths, layering it into rhythmic, choral clusters that are shattered by the 'Whatsapp Interlude', bringing us from fantasy into lived reality. And when we reach 'Disappear', the mood has shifted again; co-produced by felicita, this one's more peaceful somehow, with a lonely piano mapping out YATTA's internal world and tear-jerking vocals providing the heart.
'PALM WINE' keeps shifting rapidly, dipping into jazzy soul on 'EPKWY' - a chance for YATTA to show their vocal range - and carnivalesque neo-R&B on 'Fully Lost, Fully Found', and YATTA's lo-fi asides, like 'Enya at the Market' and 'Mood', are pasted in like tickets in a scrapbook. On 'MTV', So Drove, Carlos Hernandez and Maxime Morin help fill out YATTA's '90s moment, engineering a pop-punk banger that sounds strangely relevant - and that YATTA revisits, splicing it with different vocal takes on 'MTV2'. This odd repetition helps us unspool some of the themes - YATTA is confidently deconstructing their musical language, digging through hazy memories and bringing them into the here and now. We're lucky to be invited along for the ride.