After just 6 months since first seeing Big Yawn perform, we are thrilled to welcome them to the Research family. A compelling prelude to their debut album "No!" due out in early 2020.
Over six years the Melbourne-based group has evolved, with members of the band running various releases through label and collective Fallopian Tunes. As of 2019, Big Yawn had become a four-member music group, motivated by a history of studio production, prolific collaboration and quality hangout time.
The groups freshest effort 'Skin Rat/Thomas' captures the band performing live in the studio, and it's typical Big Yawn: fat and punchy low-end bass; drums and live drum processing; delay fx samples; thick syrupy synths. 'Skin Rat' is a hyperbolically dubbed out, tongue in cheek, magnetic blend of UK garage, footwork and breaks. And 'Thomas' takes cues from a slightly damaged post-punk sound, amplifying a brittle and sinister type of atomic porn-funk.
Limited to 200 copies.
Hand numbered and housed in a screen-printed sleeve with sticker. Artwork by Julian Hocking.
credits
released August 9, 2019
Tim Slattery: Samples, synths
Kinlay Denning: Drums
Stef Condello: Samples
Errol Green: Synths, live resampling
Recorded at Bakehouse Studios
Mixed & Produced by Errol Green
Mastered by Corey Kikos
Artwork by Julian Hocking
supported by 9 fans who also own “Skinrat / Thomas”
This is rather difficult to describe. It's pretty minimalist with a strong focus on the drumming patterns, yet these are rather gentle and not aggressive. The more the listener progress through the tracks, some melodies start to come in smoothing a bit the edges. I'd recommend listening from beginning to end in one go to get the full scope of this EP. Thibaut Devigne
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