05 June 2018 - 0 Comments

release new video for single Feel

“A powerful, atmospheric return.”  - CLASH

“A post-punk band on the rise, with the confidence and skill to make it big” - IMPOSE MAGAZINE

  

Directed by Taylor Mansfield and Jake Munro DOP - Jake Munro Edited - Taylor Mansfield Lead Actor - Tom Gray Lighting - Kyle Van Tonder Styling/Set Design - Helen Young-Loveridge and Gloria Griffen Many thanks to the extras, and to the lovely residents of Hereford.

"Feel is a song that touches on personal issues within my life,” explains vocalist Christian Dimick about the fast-paced but sharp number, "feeling absent from others as well as myself, along with feeling crushed by the weight of people’s expectations of me. The striking visuals directed by up and coming directors and photographer Taylor Mansfield and DOP Jake Munroare a visual representation of what happens when you keep things bottled up, and in the band’s own words: “the lead character tries to get involved in social situations, while his inner demons continue to eat away at him.”
 
Carving out a name for themselves within the local and international post punk music scenes as the youngest band to perform at Australia’s most iconic festival St Jerome’s Laneway, as well as creating the Auckland's coolest all-ages festival AGEOLD, the boys have extensively toured NZ as headliners, as well as notching up opening slots for big international acts including Mac Demarco, Japandroids,Viet Congand METZ. Having recently completed a 15 date NZ/AUS tour, selling out four shows in NZ in support of their latest single ‘Tongue’, which reached #3 on the NZ Alternative charts, while their first  two EPs garnered attention and praised from the likes of Noisey, Tone Deaf, Impose Magazine, Sniffers, and The Wireless.
 
Named as one of the Top 8 Kiwi guitar bands by Impose Magazine, which praised them for their “old-fashioned rock and roll cut from the same cloth as Polvo and Fugazi – embedded with a hint of classic kiwi jangle. A post-punk band on the rise, with the confidence and skill to make it big.”
 
Making their mark on the international music scene, with recent performances including this year’s Great Escape festival, Yukon Era are aiming high, with the release of the striking visuals for ‘Feel’, and their upcoming debut album slot for Autumn 2018, it’s clear that the young band is set to make set to make their mark on the international music scene.
Since forming in high school in June of 2015 Yukon Era, through hard-work, ambition and talent have rightly carved out a name for themselves within the local and international post-punk music scenes.

Their songs are loud and melodic, quiet and chaotic. The band have created a modern and polished sound which they deliver via stubborn-ly classic garage rock. In the flesh Yukon Era's greatest asset might the bands ability to convey their well crafted tunes via a set brimming with youthful confidence to form something  truly endearing, energetic and exciting.

The Auckland, New Zealand based post-punk quartet have released two well crafted EPs to critical acclaim - their first self titled EP (2016) garnered attention from Noisey and Tone Deaf and their second EP - Consume & Scratch released in late 2016 attracted interest from The New Zealand Herald, Sniffers, and The Wireless. “Five songs of spirited and shambolic garage-rock that come wrapped in a kind of Libertines-ish charm” -The Wireless. 

They were the youngest band ever to play the coveted annual Laneway Festival in 2017 and have opened for the likes of Mac Demarco,Preoccupations, METZ, DMA’sand Mini Mansions, and were named as one of the Top 8 Kiwi Guitar Tracks of 2016 by Impose Magazine [US], Yukon Era are: "Old-fashioned rock and roll cut from the same cloth as Polvo and Fugazi – embedded with a hint of classic kiwi jangle. A post-punk band on the rise, with the confidence and skill to make it big."

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