FFO : Metz , Cramps , TV Priests, Lice, Duds , Hotel Lux , The Fall
“Those familiar with Yammerer will have a war story or two. Mine is from 2019’s Threshold Festival where the band may have played the shortest set in Liverpool music history.
Only Yammerer could bring such ridiculous scenes to a head and that they did. It was the sort of malevolence that severely lacks in new music today and, truth be told, it was the best four minutes of the festival…”
Simon Kirk – Sun 13
BAND MEMBERS :
JAY SUNSEA – VOCALS
GAJO PACO – GUITAR
STEVE DEE – GUITAR
CONCHUR MACSHIM – BASS
PERM DONER – DRUMS
TRACK NAME :
TELL ME WHAT THE ANCIENT ASTRONAUT THEORISTS BELIEVE
TRACK LENGTH : 3:13
RELEASE DATE :02/07/2021
RELEASE FORMAT : DIGITAL SINGLE
MAIN GENRE : POST-PUNK / ALTERNATIVE ROCK
ISRC : UK-PGH-21-00031
RECORDED @ DOCKLANDS SPEED SHOP BY GAJO PACO
MIXED BY TOM ROACH
MASTERED BY DANNY WOODWARD AT WHITEWOOD STUDIOS
LABEL : RESTLESS BEAR RECORDS
CONFIRMED TOUR DATES 2021
29/08 – Alexanders Live / Chester
11/09 – Futurama Festival / Liverpool
24/09 – Smithdown Road Festival / Liverpool
07/10 – Focus Wales / Wrexham
06/11 – Hot Box Live / Chelmsford
19/11 – The Castle Hotel / Manchester
ABOUT THE TRACKAnyone familiar with Liverpool’s Yammerer will understand what a redundant concept that is. After all, how can one be familiar with an outfit that not only regularly reinvents itself between releases, but also seemingly reinvents just exactly what it means to be a band in 2021.
With such a strong emphasis on the organic and the extemporised, Yammerer were never going to be just another band, and one only need look to previous single ‘The Beachgoer’ to understand that. Five minutes of droning synth, lapping waves and barely audible soundbytes all form the backdrop for a hypnotic vocal delivery, it tells the story of a nameless protagonist who finds liberation in choices being removed.
Dystopian? Perhaps. Existential certainly. But this is just one side to Yammerer’s coin. Indeed, their latest single ‘Tell Me What the Ancient Astronaut Theorists Believe’ is, in comparison at least, almost accessible, harbouring more in common with previous single ‘Boa Constrictor’ than the aforementioned.
Bass and guitar chug together inexorably bringing to mind punk bands like Dead Kennedys, or post-punk acts like WIRE. Accessible might be a stretch however, especially once the track’s narrative is taken into account.
Featuring another protagonist (now named Jon Vertigo) the track is another existential offering, this time exploring ideas of identity within capitalist constructs in true Yammerer fashion, though it shares little else in common with ‘The Beachgoer’. Instead, what ‘…Believe’ offers, is three minutes of calamitous post-punk that clatters and careers its way towards its conclusion, while harbouring both bark, and bite, in equal measure.
- Words from Dave Beech