Friday, April 22, 2011


You do not go to death, death comes to you.

YACHT played this evening at The Masquerade, one of my least favorite venues in Atlanta, one that takes a band like YACHT to go there. YACHT, it's been said, is a lot of things. It's kind of a band, but it's mostly a genre-and-media-spanning life project founded and led by Portland's Jona Bechtolt and new member Claire L. Evans. YACHT make anthemic power jams, play them backwards and soak them in nearly-psychedelic cherry cola. YACHT's heart is the shows: uncluttered, inspiring sessions of damaged dance moves and synchronized crowd-waving, backed by constantly changing elements -- PowerPoint presentations, audience Q&A sessions, and shamanistic video environments.

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