Alexander Yearns – What the Hell: The Indie Surf Pop Sound of an Existential Summer

Alexander Yearns cruised onto our radar through woozy, surfy psych pop, saturated oceanic scintillation and 60s kaleidoscopic indie cool with his standout single, What the Hell; riding cosmic waves while brushing against irreverent deadpan indie malaise, Yearns concocted a mind-melding sonic menagerie you’ll want to get lost in time and time again. What the Hell is a timeless exasperation of how reality is more of a suffocating surreality when desire revolves around escape. The sun-bleached production tempers the wiry tension while never inhibiting the kaleidoscopic aesthetic pleasure of the release, which allows the guitars to shimmer with a narcotic glaze, the rhythm section keeps the pulse taut, and the vocal delivery lands with the kind of shrugging discontent that makes existential frustration feel oddly anthemic. Hints of Mac DeMarco’s woozy ease, strokes of The Strokes’ clipped cool, and Allah-Las’ coastal psychedelia flicker through the single, which is lyrically antithetical to your average summer single, but for the outliers whose existentialism doesn’t diminish when the heat hitches up, it hits all the right spots. Based in New Jersey, the singer-songwriter has built his sound around Americana rock, soulful vocals, and emotionally direct songwriting; What the Hell could easily be considered his […]

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