Yukon Blonde: Critical Hit [DINE ALONE]

Why you'll love it

Yukon Blonde's 2018 record trades some of the guitars for vintage synths and a pop sheen, from "Too Close To Love" to the nine-minute closer "Ritual Off The Docks". Thirteen songs about love and life online.

This edition

• Dine Alone vinyl pressing
• 13 tracks, including the nine-minute "Ritual Off The Docks"

About the album

Critical Hit arrived in June 2018, and the band described it as a reaction to the times: "The internet has made everyone go crazy, and human relationships have taken a beating." The songs answer that with warmth and a lot of hooks, built on synths like the E-mu Emulator that drives "Hardly Even There".

Some of it started as accidents. "Dear Nancy" grew from a phone recording of a rehearsal jam and kept its home-recorded vocal when the band re-tracked it with Thomas D'Arcy, and "Painting On A Smile" was written on a MIDI keyboard while the band was in Spain.

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Tracklist

Listen

On Dine Alone Records (cat# DAV221), first out in 2018.