28 October 2022 - 0 Comments

Pōneke based gutter folk act YOLK has been steadily releasing music since 2017. Arriving from humble beginnings as a one-person home studio project, the early YOLK albums are characterised as experimental freak folk occasionally dipping their toes into a bag of new wave. By the time 2020’s Cherry Blossoms & the Moon was released, YOLK had developed into a live band with prominent players from the capital’s diverse music scene. 2021 saw the release of Sleeping Country - ‘A speaker mic recorded country dirge’ and after a string of biblical shows the band was ready to leave the Scarlett 2i2 behind and record to the true analogue tape of old.

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Let’s Stay High Forever was recorded live to an eight-track machine at Warwick Donald's studio in Newtown over the course of a hot summer week, going on to be mastered by Mike Gibson. The songs tell a coming-of-age story with refreshing honesty about the liberating self-destruction one finds themselves in during the wee hours of their life.

In layman's terms, it's about the anxiety-inducing binge culture of Aotearoa.

YOLK is Yann Le Dorré on vocals and guitar, Baxter Perry (Same Name Confusion, Riiki Reid, Eli Superfly) on lead guitar, Davin Ojala (The Gallery, Heavy Chest) on bass and Josh Dominikovich (Same Name Confusion, Michael Llewellyn) on drums.

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