YAANG

“YAANG have marked themselves as one of the most exciting bands to come from the North West.” NME 100

“Lusciously untamed…No matter who you are or where you are, if you’re having a bad day it's time to drop your defences, embrace your imperfections, stick on YAANG’s new track and sweat all your woes away.” The Line of Best Fit

“Blurring the lines between the seductive thump of the dancefloor and the sweat-soaked mayhem of the mosh pit” DIY

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

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

“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

t’s already been quite the year for YAANG. Announced as part of illustrious hype list NME 100 last month where they were heralded as “one of the most exciting bands to come from the North West.” and growing their list of radio backers supporters to Huw Stephens, Steve Lamacq, Emily Pilbeam, Indie Forever, New Music Fix (BBC Radio 6 Music) and John Kennedy (Radio X)- via backing too from The Line of Best Fit, DIY,  and Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon - the trio share long-awaited debut EP No, released today (14th March)  via boutique label crackedankles.

Celebrated with the band’s most extensive headline tour to date - culminating in their biggest show yet at The White Hotel in Salford and a debut EU show at Paris’ Supersonic, - plus festival slots at Focus Wales and Left Of The Dial (full details below) -  the EP comes in the wake of multiple headline sell-outs in the Manchester home last year, a last minute call-up to join Fat Dog at Aberystwyth's Transform festival in February, and shows with  some of alternative music’s biggest new risers - Getdown Services, Maruja, Mandrake Handshake and Dog Race among them.

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, the No EP marks YAANG’s most elaborate artistic leap yet. 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…

‘Speed McQueen’ is a stand-out from the collection: a restless, side-stepping mash-up of synth-goth, 80s art-rock, and classic punk. Offering more on the track, the band say..

“Speed McQueen is the only song on this EP and maybe in our entire catalogue that we wrote sitting down, I think you can tell because there’s actual songwriter stuff happening in this one, key change and two tempo changes, we really pushed the boat out on this one”

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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, Huw Stephens, Emily Pilbeam, New Music Fix and Nathan Shepherd (Indie Forever) and Radio 1 (Gemma Bradley) the band’s list of backers grows ever larger. Included in illustrious hype List NME 100 in February 2025, and featured in ABSO magazine, YAANG can also count The Line of Best Fit, DIY, John Kennedy (Radio X), Louder Than War, Rodeo, The Indie Scene, Blogotheque and even Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon among their supporters.