Prog-Rock band YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN has already revealed the release of their third studio album titled Dirt. Today, however, the group dropped a new single off of the new record, titled Yandere. The track is the third to appear following the previously released Someplace and Hungry Ghosts.
The Canadian band, according to Consequence of Sound, will release the entire record on March 23rd via Paper Bag Records. Their style is something comparable to extravagant Noh-Wave with elements of pop, metal and industrial.
In the press release for their upcoming record it’s said that “the band has emerged with new elements to heighten and distort into their already far-reaching sound, which combines and tornadoes Asian diasporic and Indigenous influences and perspectives” DIRT is YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN’s first studio release since 2013’s UZU.
According to Exclaim, the video for their latest single Yandere, directed by Joyce Wong, is “pretty well suited to a song whose title roughly translates to “a person with an unhealthy romantic obsession” in Japanese — like, a violently, psychotic, stalker-level obsession”.
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN is not new to employing visual representation as a means to convey their musical and lyrical message. Just like their previous record UZU the new record takes place in a fantasy location called Pureland. According to how the band described it, and as Consequence of sound has reported, “Dirt’s heroine, Aentsik, is leaving everything she knows on a mission taking her from the bubble dome cities orbiting her flooded planet, to the colossal ruins and vestiges of humanity resting on the ocean floor, all to raise the abandoned turtle starship, Anowara, and retrieve the last sample of arable soil.”
The band will also embark on a Northern American tour starting March 7 at Festival d’été de Québec. You can pre-order the album here.
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