Laura & Tom
YoKinky
NYC, NY, USA
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Ridegwood, Queens duo YO KINKY met at the start of 2020, bonding over shared musical interests, and immediately started working together on songs. Over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, Laura Wight and Tom Unish self-produced and recorded their self-titled debut EP out in February 2021. This collection of songs addresses trust, communication, love, loneliness, freedom, identity, and expectation. The two-piece incorporates drum machines and buzzing, dissonant, squelching keyboards with guitars that alternately shimmer and shake with reverb and delay. Wight's bright vocals are delivered with a conversational precision that calls to mind acts like X, Sleaford Mods, and Blondie.
The lead single to YO KINKY’s debut EP, “Someone I Used to Know” expands the stereo image, with a wide wall of undulated guitars carrying their sweet and acerbic vocals, of a simultaneously interrogative and disengaged nature.
Laura & Tom
Ridegwood, Queens duo YO KINKY met at the start of 2020, bonding over shared musical interests, and immediately started working together on songs. Over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, Laura Wight and Tom Unish self-produced and recorded their self-titled debut EP out in February 2021. This collection of songs addresses trust, communication, love, loneliness, freedom, identity, and expectation. The two-piece incorporates drum machines and buzzing, dissonant, squelching keyboards with guitars that alternately shimmer and shake with reverb and delay. Wight's bright vocals are delivered with a conversational precision that calls to mind acts like X, Sleaford Mods, and Blondie.
The lead single to YO KINKY’s debut EP, “Someone I Used to Know” expands the stereo image, with a wide wall of undulated guitars carrying their sweet and acerbic vocals, of a simultaneously interrogative and disengaged nature.
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Someone I Used To Know
“Someone I Used to Know” expands the stereo image, with a wide wall of undulated guitars carrying sweet and acerbic vocals, of a simultaneously interrogative and disengaged nature. The lyrics may appear dark, but Laura Wight’s deep playfulness keeps things buoyant and seductive. "Someone I Used To Know" starts off with a minimal, groovy synth line and vocals that belie a vulnerability just beneath the surface. “I know you and I are gonna have a rad time / Full of bad taste, of neat humor” opens the verse with a hip-hop cadence and sets forth with the insight of exciting times to come. The chorus shifts gear with a wall of sound chorus led by treated, foreboding vocal and modulated guitars. By the song’s end you can envision lives lived and loves lost amid a landscape of urban decay, as Wight sings of “gunshots right below my window panes.”more
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