Yellow Days releases new album  ‘A Day in a Yellow Beat’ & shares animated video for ‘Keep Yourself Alive’

Yellow Days releases new album  ‘A Day in a Yellow Beat’ & shares animated video for ‘Keep Yourself Alive’

Since 2020 took a turn in an unprecedented direction and the world went on pause for a while, Yellow Days kept his goal for the year firmly in his sights and forged ahead with the announcement of his new album ‘A Day in a Yellow Beat’.

Having released a series of impressive singles across the course of the late spring and summer, the full, epic and incredibly accomplished album is released today. The latest track to be revealed from the full length was ‘The Curse’ featuring long-term friend and collaborator Mac DeMarco.

This single held tight to the woozy mixture of soul, blues, psych, and groove that you’ll hear across the record and that has been found across previous releases ‘Getting Closer‘,  ‘You’, ‘Love is Everywhere’ and ‘Treat You Right’.  In tandem with the album release, Yellow Days has also shared a video for ‘Keep Yourself Alive’ – watch HERE.

This video was created by the same animator and artist that worked on the previous single ‘You’, Kogan Cult In support of ‘A Day in a Yellow Beat’, Yellow Days has also announced a live tour for 2021. As someone who thrives on the live stage (and having not played a gig since an AMP night at The Jazz Café in October ’19) George is incredibly excited about getting this new record out on the road. ‘A Day in a Yellow Beat’ is Yellow Days’ sophomore record and his first for Columbia. George is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist and self-medicated auteur who has never quite fitted into one style or space. His sound continues to warp funky, while his words dig deeper into modern malaise and mental health. It is, as he says, “Upbeat existential millennial crisis music.”

On his current musical direction, inspiration comes from a deep-dive into ’70’s: fusion-era works of Herbie Hancock and Quincy Jones, the funkier phases of Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield, and the keyboard wizardry of Don Blackman and Weldon Irvine. He’s been staying up until 5 a.m. watching Soul Train on YouTube, and testing his falsetto. ‘A Day in a Yellow Beat’ is a real-time culmination of ideas, however wild they may be. Having previously released music produced out of his garden shed in surrey, Yellow Days has spent a lot of time writing and recording this current wave of music in LA with a whole host of incredible artists and musicians – many of whom have / still play for the likes of  Raphael Saadiq, Frank Ocean, Weldon Irvine, Kanye West. In doing so, George has taken it back to a more traditional way of making music – from hand-picking the collaborators, selecting the perfect studio setting to recording everything on analogue, vintage gear; all of which has vastly enhanced the sound Yellow Days is now capable of creating. By overseeing the production process, George is more in charge of his own fuzzed-out, technicolor vision than ever. “This is really my first record where I can let it fucking all out,” he says.

Yellow Days remains at its heart, a project about youth. His career trajectory, which began at a very young age, has been a musical outlet for his teenage years and the complexities of transitioning into adulthood. ‘A Day in a Yellow Beat’ is the culmination of this process to date; a coming of age moment as he commits a wealth of emotions into a vision that projects well beyond his garden shed and onto the global stage.  Go listen HERE.

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A Day in a Yellow Beat’ artwork

UK & EU Tour

07.03  LA2, Barcelona

08.03  Independence, Madrid09.

03  LAV, Lisbon11.03  Debaser Strand, Stockholm12.

03  Parkteatret,Oslo

14.03  Pumpehuset, Copenhagen

16.03  Mojo, Hamburg

17.03  Kesselhaus, Berlin

19.03  Grelle Forelle, Vienna

20.03  Strom, Munich

21.03  Kaufleuten Festsaal, Zurich

23.03  Santeria Toscana31, Milan

25.03  CBE, Cologne

26.03  Botanique, Brussels

27.03  Trabendo, Paris

29.03  Melkweg, Amsterdam

31.03  Academy, Dublin

02.04  Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds

03.04  Academy 2, Manchester

04.03  Oran Mor, Glasgow06.

03  Chalk, Brighton07.

03  SXW, Bristol

09.04  02 Forum, London

US Tour

26.05 – Chicago, IL28.05 – Detroit, MI

29.05 – Toronto, ON 3.050 – Montreal, QC

01.06 – Boston, MA03.06 – Brooklyn, NY

04.06 – Philadelphia, PA

05.06 – Washington, DC

06.06 – Richmond, VA

08.06 – Atlanta, GA

09.06 – New Orleans, LA

11.06 – Houston, TX12.06 – Austin, TX

14.06 – Phoenix, AZ

15.06 – San Diego, CA

17.06 – Santa Ana, CA

18.06 – Los Angeles, CA

19.06 – San Francisco, CA

21.06 – Portland, OR

22.06 – Seattle, WA

23.06- Vancouver, BC

25.06 – Salt Lake City, UT

26.06 – Englewood, CO

Tickets for the UK/EU tour are available HERE

 ‘A Day in a Yellow Beat’ Tracklisting:

1. Intro
2. Be Free
3. Let You Know
4. (The Outsider)
5. Who’s There?  (feat. Shirley Jones)
6. Getting Closer
7. Come Groove (Interlude)
8. Keep Yourself Alive
9. Open Your Eyes (feat. Shirley Jones & Nick Walters)
10. !  (feat. Bishop Nehru)
11. (Pot Party)
12. Keeps Me Satisfied
13. You
14. (What Goes Up Must Come Down)
15. The Curse  (feat. Mac Demarco)
16. Let’s Be Good To Each Other
17. Whatever You Wanna Do
18. Something Special (Interlude)
19. So Lost
20. I Don’t Mind
21. (Mature Love)
22. Treat You Right
23. Love Is Everywhere

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