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You Already Know
12+ albums
post-rockinstrumentalmath rockmathrockpost rock
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IT’S the summer of 2009 and You Already Know (otherwise known as YAK) are riding a wave of public goodwill afforded to very few bands. Following a more traditional incarnation which culminated in a support slot with The Deftones at the Glasgow Academy, YAK’s transformation to the sans-vocals outfit they are today is confirmed by the release of their debut album, Stop Whispering. Reviews for Stop Whispering are universally positive – full of praise for a sound that is unashamedly heavy and undeniably Scottish. The Scottishness is apparent despite the fact that the entire album features just two lines of vocals. Perhaps it’s the association with Glasgow’s healthy instrumental rock scene that has given Stop Whispering its Scots identity, rather than thick Glaswegian accents. Whatever it is, YAK are reveling in it and Stop Whispering is selling all over the world. Australia and Russia are particularly interested it seems, with the former Soviet Union downloading illegal torrents of the record in big numbers. Not that the band – or their chuffed record label Mister Tramp – mind at all. “We only got a very small number of physical copies of the album made anyway,” says guitarist Allan Swan. “And it takes iTunes a while to make music available, so we’d rather have folk in Russia nicking it than ignoring it.” Scotland too is interested. The album reaches number 16 in the UK Record Store charts – charting higher than former Beatle George Harrison’s Let It Roll, much to YAK’s c
