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Public Eye 7"

by The Yours

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1.
Public Eye 01:49
lyrics
hey now everyone comes from the underground sometimes we fight and have to lose our bounds hey I like you milk the sound and twist my mind sometimes you are just the one who keeps me calm never gonna understand hey you always looking for the ultra space sometimes I don't know what you've been going through hey you spin my head down with your smiling gaze sometimes all the eyes stare at you from the space never gonna understand
2.
Purple 02:08
lyrics
little purple man live in purple land every day is just another end with a purple mind think of purple side every day is purple in his eyes he's the only one who's falling in his dream there's no one but him walk on purple lane under purple rain little purple man can feel no pain take a purple pill have a purple meal in a purple night he's so confused sometimes he feels so lonely living without you purple makes him ill

about

There's no escaping it: If you've heard anything about The Yours, it's that this Hong Kong based three-piece loves the 90s. The band's members are very clearly products of the web rather than any particular geography; the Public Eye 7”, their stunning debut for Genjing Records, evinces tastes that run toward fuzzy indie bands from both sides of the pond. Yes, there's a bit of the wah-pedal guitar violence of Dinosaur Jr., and a little of bratty, lackadaisical detachment of early Pavement, but there's also the rich tunefulness of Teenage Fanclub and Velocity Girl, and at times, the searingly unadorned resignation of a less dramatic Smashing Pumpkins. However, like so many artists saddled, fairly or not, with the "revival" tag, from post-punk and garage-rock to nu-disco or neo-soul, The Yours are worth hearing not so much because of who they may or may not sound like, but what they've done with those sounds: in this case, they’ve made a deeply melodic, casually thrilling coming-of-age pair of tracks for a generation that never saw Nirvana on 120 Minutes...not live anyway. The band distinguish themselves by knowing their way around around a catchy, emotionally evocative song. Sometimes they can be bright and borderline optimistic, almost twee, as in the peppy “ooh-ooh-ooh” endearments of “Public eye”, which comes complete with a snakey, Middle Eastern imbued lead floating atop a massive sea of distortion. Elsewhere, they can be gritty and urgent: Screeches of feedback occasionally drown out drowsy vocals on “Purple”, nicely suiting the neo-psychedelic imagery hidden beneath a storm of C86 guitar malaise. Simply put, for fans of pure, unadulterated indie rock, there’s a high probability The Yours will be on the next cover of that fanzine you’ve been planning on reviving as a reaction to internet saturation: Sonic, contemporary comfort food reminiscent of simpler, fuzzier times.

credits

released November 17, 2014

Produced by The Yours
"Public Eye" recorded and mixed by Yang Haisong at Psychic Kong, Beijing, Dec 13, 2013
"Purple" recorded and mixed by Nic Wong, Feb 14, 2014
Mastered by Garrett Haines at Treelady Studios, Pittsburgh USA
All songs by The Yours
Drums by Nelson Ko and Pie Wong

Art by The Yours
Layout by Die Leung

Managed by Yuman Ng

Special thanks to our families and dearest friends; Yang Haisong, Fuhan, Zhang Shouwang, Nevin Domer, Nikki, Bebe and Reggie from S.T.D, Nelson Ko, Roland Lee, Pie Wong, Gosha Rubchinsky and Tim Head

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