Chicago's Yawn proves anything but boredom-inducing on their latest five-track EP. The tangled web of bongo beats, drippy synth melody, and fanged riffs of closing instrumental "Yabis" is the perfect dance floor ready bookend to the dazzlingly woven indie pop treasures it follows. Eerie harmonies haunt the acoustic flicker of "Mamma's Boy", sticking to the song's cottony slumber for a rare washed-out sleeper. Yawn is much better when skipping through the cheery shuffle of "Then They Come", while holding tight to the mystical classic pop harmonies at the center of their sound. The cymbals and lo-fi fog of "Take It With Me" opens the track ebbing and receding like the ocean before the salty-sweet vocals and gooey guitar slather through to clean up the sound of the surfer pop gem. The syrupy psychedelic haze of "Ganymede" floats by with heavenly falsetto vocals and the occasional guitar flare-up fluttering like butterflies as the clanging bell-laced beat jingles by. As good as Yawn sounds on the short EP, you get the impression they will be fantastic sprawled across a full-length album.
Seek - "Take It With Me", "Ganymede", "Yabis"
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