Yellow Days: Harmless Melodies [GOOD YEARS MUSIC]

Why you'll love it

The early Yellow Days songs on a single LP, with "Go Home" added as a bonus track and the rap version of "Gap in the Clouds" on Side B. It is where George van den Broek's woozy, soulful bedroom sound first took shape.

This edition

• Includes the bonus track "Go Home"
• "Gap in the Clouds" in its rap version
• Eight tracks across two sides

About the album

Yellow Days is the project of English singer and guitarist George van den Broek, who was still a teenager when these songs started doing the rounds online. The voice was the giveaway: a deep, worn, soul-singer rasp that seemed to belong to someone three times his age, laid over chorus-drenched guitar, lazy drums and the kind of warm tape haze that makes everything sound like late afternoon.

Harmless Melodies is the starting point. "A Little While" and "Your Hand Holding Mine" set out the mood, half psychedelic soul and half bedroom indie, while "Gap in the Clouds," here in its version with a rap at the end, became one of his best-loved songs. The bonus "Go Home" makes this pressing worth having even if you wore out the files years ago. Harmless, as melodies go, but rather habit-forming.

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Out June 12, 2026 on Good Years Music (cat# YEDA001).