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Tune-Yards
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Catalogue Number
4AD0309DA
Release Date
March 26, 2021

Tune-Yards announces details of their fifth studio album, sketchy. The 11-track record, which includes the singles 'hold yourself.' and 'nowhere, man', will be released on 26th March 2021.

Tune-Yards’ last release i can feel you creep into my private life, was a self-reflexive question mark at the end of a decade of outspoken, polyphonic indie music. From 2009 to 2018, Tune-Yards (both Merrill and her partner and collaborator Nate Brenner) released four critically acclaimed albums, travelled the world relentlessly to play live shows, and composed the psychedelic score to Boots Riley's surrealist cinematic masterpiece Sorry To Bother You. "We had really been non-stop hustling," Merrill reflects. "And when we're hustling, we're complicit in all of the systems that I really don't believe in."

Interrogating these systems and her role within them had left Merrill feeling heavy with guilt and grief and lost about how to move forward as a musician. But then she began to rediscover the joy in making music. Inspired by the Beastie Boys Book and Questlove’s Creative Quest, Merrill and Nate began jamming daily for hours in their home rehearsal studio “like athletes”. They ditched computer screens for live instruments (Merrill on drums, Nate on bass) and before long full songs started to emerge.

Unlike the lyrical introspection of previous outing i can feel you..., on sketchy. Merrill balances self-inspection and reflection with bombastic rallying cries, reminiscent of the furious tones of early days Tune-Yards. The result is a colorful and joyous record with lyrics that cut to the bone. "I started remembering that people come to us to be entertained, to move, to feel joy. And together, I think, we can wake up.”

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Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 nowhere, man 3:29 Buy

    nowhere, man

  2. 2 make it right. 2:56 Buy

    make it right.

  3. 3 hypnotized 4:30 Buy

    hypnotized

  4. 4 homewrecker 3:17 Buy

    homewrecker

  5. 5 silence pt. 1 (when we say "we") 3:25 Buy

    silence pt. 1 (when we say "we")

  6. 6 silence pt. 2 (who is "we"?) 1:00 Buy

    silence pt. 2 (who is "we"?)

  7. 7 hold yourself. 4:50 Buy

    hold yourself.

  8. 8 sometime 2:53 Buy

    sometime

  9. 9 under your lip 2:49 Buy

    under your lip

  10. 10 my neighbor 3:26 Buy

    my neighbor

  11. 11 be not afraid. 4:26 Buy

    be not afraid.

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