‘Trees/Giant’ by Yesterday Will Be Great | New Album, ‘The Weather Is Fantastic’
Exclusive video premiere of ‘Trees/Giant’ by post-rock trio Yesterday Will Be Great, taken from their forthcoming new album ‘The Weather Is Fantastic’, out April 8th via Blooms Recordings.
The title of the album fills a dystopian concept with irony: “Speaking of the weather, chatting, is typical of that superficiality that is destroying us, but of which we feel the need”. Following last year’s excerpt ‘The Diamond’s Issue’ and the previous ‘Little Blue Flower’, the brand new single ‘Trees/Giant’ is an imaginary soundtrack for a quiet walk in a wood that suddenly becomes a spasmodic escape due to the sighting of a giant, which represents a misadventure, the meeting with the unknown, perceived as a danger because of our preconceptions.
Yesterday Will be Great, also known by the acronym YWBG, debuted with the EP ‘Y’ in 2019, often playing live, even supporting international artists like Minami Deutsch. ‘The Weather Is Fantastic’ took shape in the second half of 2021, mainly from improvisation, and was oriented for the first time to a full instrumental but no less communicative work.
The dialogue between the instruments flows without the word filter. “Instrumental music exists in a deeper and probably less immediate dimension, and what we were interested in was to move away from any scheme and immerse ourselves in more intimate feelings. Less is more”. The guiding light is a post-rock background, but we can find many different influences, from psychedelia to alt-rock, from shoegaze to ambient music. At the same time, there is a somewhat proud do it yourself attitude, confirmed by the live video shot for ‘Trees/Giant’ and also by the recording sessions held almost entirely live without any editing. “We freed ourselves from any coldness in favor of greater humanity. Listen to our imperfections”. Yesterday Will be Great is led by deus ex machina Simone Ricci on guitars, ex Kisses From Mars and already active with the solo project The Nude, and completed by Daniele Mambelli on drums and by the new entry Giuseppe De Domenico on bass.
The melancholy and enigmatic pic on the album cover, taken by Ricci himself, represents the lack of something: why is that chair there, and who is missing to sit on it?
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