Source of Yellow to Release "The Said" on Twin Lakes Records

Twin Lakes Records (Myty Konkeror, Electric Jellyfish, etc) will release the latest effort from Brooklyn's Source of Yellow on September 18th, check out what the label had to say about it...

[press release] Source of Yellow is a trio from Brooklyn whose complex tonal interplay of the low-end, and their ability to throw sudden and sweeping rhythmic gestures, makes for music of unique beauty. Their latest, The Said, sees its official release on Twin Lakes on September 18th. This 3-song EP offers a heady and guileless take on playing against the psych-wardens, the noise-canon, the must-listen-to and hard-listed. These three don’t just trade on the value of knowing the old explorations, but instead take the most outré edges and sonics from our masters and contemporaries as their starting point -- then they sing to them and coax them into an intimate and amplified complexity. On The Said SOY yanks energy from space to sling it hard back to the earth:

I. The Said: Two notes urgent and sparkling. An incantation. Bass and drums suddenly pushing harder than expected with an exhortation to come along on ferocious drops through knotted loops, speed changes, and rattling hard turns. You are locked on a variegated three-loop ride from the ether ending hard and fun in the dirt.

II. 1 & 9: A smile and then a swooning sleep. A heartbeat, a jangle like cicadas and the breeze in summer, a tangle of descending arpeggios as birdsong. A further fall into a dreamless theta state. Days or years are passing.

III. Maybe!: Then a heady wakeful hum. A dancing lurch with a reedy ostinato and a yearning voice. A final harmonic convergence that seems to leave tracer notes arcing back to us and gently fading while we finish listening. At the beginning and end of it all are three people making brilliant noises sometimes knowingly, it seems, and sometimes maybe acting the vessel, but probably trembling and smiling all the while.

For this release, the band commissioned NYC-based visual artist Pali Kashi for the cover art. The arresting Upstate, evokes SOY’s sonics -- their ability to pull in the harmolodic for a hug with the gothic in a muddy dance stomp, where the psychedelic spectrum encompasses true tonal weirdness as well as compelling housebroken sounds. This work of haunting beauty will be available in a limited run of 50 archival quality prints, each of which will come with a free download code.