YAANG

“Sweaty, visceral…YAANG are totally unabashed about delighting in the flamboyance of their music.” NME

“Blazing with teenage rebellion – it feels like a long time since rock was this good” The Indie Scene

“Another wonderful Manchester band” Deb Grant, BBC Radio 6 Music 

“Heavy dosage will leave you stumbling somewhere between social commentary, personal reflection and performative dance...” Rodeo

“Amazing live musicians. They put on such a mint show” Nathan Shepherd, BBC Radio 6 Music

“socially anxious and delightfully jittery noise-punk…YAANG approaches their music by simply telling it how it is.” Louder Than War

In a 2024 which saw them sell-out multiple headline shows, share stages with some of alternative music’s biggest new risers - Fat Dog, Getdown Services, Maruja, Mandrake Handshake, Dog Race - and win the backing of NME, Steve, Lamacq and Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon - Manchester Dance-Punk trio YAANG are beginning the new year as confidently as they finished the last.

Announced today (24th January),  the band’s long awaited debut EP No is their most elaborate artistic leap to date. Adding experiments of German Motorik, French electro and Post-Punk Disco into their trademark brand of drum-machine’ing punk-rock irreverence - one that has seen their cult following grow ever larger in their native Manchester and beyond - No reveals a band that is more than just fun and games. Just…

Recorded in Stoke-On-Trent last summer with Formal Sppeedwear’s Beck Clewlow, and mastered by Jesse F. Keeler of Death From Above 1979 and MSTRKRFT, lead single ‘Til Morning Light’ - - which premiered last week on BBC Radio 6Music's Indie Forever - is no exception to this rule. Drawing influence from the pioneering 00s classics of Justice and Ed Banger Records, the track offers sci-fi observations on the gripes and misgivings ailing contemporary twenty-something life, as the band’s Davey Moore and Ben White explain: 

“It’s a tale told from the point of view of a robot learning to let go, fighting anxiety and doing his best to have a good time. Regardless of the opinions of others, opinions of one’s self, and the state of the world. “So dance with me through tragedy” is a lyric I think we can all get behind no matter what your situation

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Forming in 2017 when Davey Moore (vocals/sampler) met Oliver Duffy (Guitars/vocals) at a rhythmic awareness class at the University of Salford - and later completed by Ben White (Ex-Working Men’s Club) on bass duties - the trio have steadily built their reputation for furious, high-energy live shows, powered by the rocket-fuel combo of pulsating drum-machine loops, clangorous guitars and a wicked sense of humour (bass player Ben also performs as a stand-up comic)

Never far away from another live show, YAANG’s tireless work ethic has brought them onto stages with the likes of Maruja, Getdown Services, Porij, Fat Dog, Mandrake Handshake, Dog Race, Keg, the Vacant Lots, as well as Canadian rock stalwarts Death From Above 1979.

Winning airplay on BBC Radio 6Music Airplay from Steve Lamacq, New Music Fix and Nathan Shepherd (Indie Forever) and Radio 1 (Gemma Bradley) the band’s list of backers grows ever larger: cover artists in NME’s coverage of Beyond The Music Festival, and featured in ABSO magazine, YAANG can also count John Kennedy (Radio X), Louder Than War, The Indie Scene, Blogotheque and even Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon among their supporters.