Clockenflap cheat sheet: YACHT
Comprises Creative wunderkind Jona Bechtolt and sci-fi writer cum vocalist Claire L. Evans.
Does beat driven synth-pop that miraculously manages to be conceptual and fun loving at the same time.
From Portland, Oregon.
You care because they are shit hot at the moment – recently signed to the scrupulously cool NYC label DFA, and contending for top slots on many a critic’s best of 2009 lists with a new album, The Mystery Lights. Ignore the art school haircuts and judge for yourself whether they’re worthy of all the hype.
Here’s proof Check out one of the big singles of this past summer in the YouTube video below, or hit up www.teamyacht.com/souvenirs for some free mp3s.
They hate being asked “about the nature of our relationship, if we are brother and sister, or lovers, and so forth.”
Jona routinely lies about actually being 113 Earth years old. “This truth is hard to understand and best avoided in public and private announcements.”
Claire routinely lies about being “neither human, nor alien.”
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