Yawn Mower share their new single “Geothermal Springs” along with a music video for the song. It’s the latest offering from their new album I Just Can’t Wait To Die, due out on August 15th (Mint 400 Records), and follows the song “Rascal.” Yawn Mower will celebrate the release of their new album with a record release show in Asbury Park, on August 30th, followed by multiple east coast dates in September.
“Biff’s girlfriend went to Iceland a few years ago on a photography trip,” shares Yawn Mower’s Mike Chick about the song. “When we were talking about it, I came up with the line, ‘Wish that I was with you for the foss’, kind of like a postcard you would get in the mail. (Foss means waterfall in Icelandic). The rest of the song is pretty salt of the Earth, actually talking about ordering chinese food, taking your little sister to the arcade and mall, and gardening. All the things I was doing the day I was working on the lyrics. Except the hot air balloon part. I didn’t ride a balloon that day (or ever).”
The Asbury Park, NJ band formed in 2015, and over the past decade they have released a handful of EPs and their 2022 debut LP To Each Their Own Coat. Along the way they’ve made their mark on the New Jersey scene, and shared the stage with incredible bands like Mannequin Pussy, Oso Oso, The Good Life, Hot Snakes and more. Their sophomore album I Just Can’t Wait To Die propels the band forward, with a record that’s equal parts joyful, reflective and humorously absurd. Across its 10 tracks, Yawn Mower weave together various vignettes and observations on life, both profound and relatably ordinary, holding them all in place with a bath of fuzzy guitar tones and the occasional dose of strings for an added epic or frenetic flair.
Yawn Mower began writing the majority of the songs found on I Just Can’t Wait To Die” after playing the Sea. Hear. Now festival in their native Asbury Park. “After the biggest show yet of our career as a band,” shares Chick, “we wanted to write songs that play well on a grander stage.” On the new record you can hear the palpable excitement of a band reaching for and successfully grabbing that ring. Outside of tracking drums with their friend Evan Bernard (who has engineered releases for Mannequin Pussy and Soul Glow among others), every other sound made on the record was a DIY affair; recorded, engineered, produced, mixed and mastered entirely by the band. “Our goal was to make our version of Pinkerton,” says Chick, “A raw, rough around the edges, noisier follow up to our debut that was entirely self-produced.”
