Yawn Mower - I Just Can't Wait To Die

“an endearing and slightly sardonic hook-attack. If you fuck with DIY ’90s-style melodic-rocker types like Liquid Mike, then you will fuck with this.” – Stereogum

Yawn Mower are excited to announce their new album I Just Can’t Wait To Die, due out on August 15th on Mint 400 Records. 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, Electric Six 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 2023 Sea. Hear. Now festival in their native Asbury Park. “After the biggest show yet of our career as a band,” shares Mike 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 Biff Swenson, “A raw, rough around the edges, noisier follow up to our debut that was entirely self-produced.”

Stereogum has written about the three singles Yawn Mower released leading up to I Just Can’t Wait To Die, calling YM’s lead single “Rascal” grandly poppy alt-rock with loads of Weezer-ish guitars with some fancy orchestration and plentiful vocal hooks, “Geothermal Springs” straight-up uplifting and fun and “New Year’s At The Airport” an endearing and slightly sardonic hook-attack. If you fuck with DIY ’90s-style melodic-rocker types, then you will fuck with this.

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