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Artist
Yamon Yamon
12+ albums
indiepost-rockmath rockswedishindie rock
about
Music has always had a relationship with the changing seasons, soundtracks that follow nature’s ambling course through the year. Summer necessitates music with an overabundance of energy. Autumn and winter often find us lost in slower, darker songs as the year comes to its close and we ponder our relationship with the passing time. Spring is a period rebirth, thawing, and new life, and we chose our music accordingly. Often this relationship with seasons requires the creation of mixtapes drawing from a number of bands, removing songs with a certain feeling from their usual context and combining them with similar tracks. Or sometimes we intensely listen to records that seems to embody the time of year, bands with a distinct sound – upbeat or down-tempo, sunny or glacial, and so on. Finales by Yamon Yamon is an exercise in emotional malleability, ever present and vibrant no matter what the season, the mood, or weather. The layers of music present a different face, an alternate tapestry of meaning as our ears listen for those emotions that seem so necessary at the time. Periods of darkness expose the vast, atmospheric guitars – as can be heard so wonderfully on ‘Surf’ - and a vulnerability in Jon’s voice. The sunlight streaming through our windows brings a mature form of happiness to the forefront, explored in ‘Kraut’; that emotion which is well aware of life’s ups and downs, and remains constant and buoyant when we are drowning in one of life’s many challenges, and never lets
