‘Alive’ by Yot Club | New EP, ‘Santolina’ | “Weirdo wasteland”

Uncategorized October 21, 2021

‘Alive’ by Yot Club | New EP, ‘Santolina’ | “Weirdo wasteland”

Exclusive video premiere of ‘Alive’ by Yot Club, the first track off their forthcoming EP, ‘Santolina’, due January 2022 via Nice Guys Records.


Ryan Kaiser’s lo-fi indie pop project Yot Club stems from a diverse array of influences, and offers a unique and recognizable brand of vibrant, sunny pop rock. Since 2019, Yot Club has released three EPs and more than thirty tracks. Taking a simplified approach to recording, intentionally working within his restrictions of owning one microphone, Ryan boosts his creativity. His sound reflects a pretty summer vibe, using distorted vocals, lo-fi beats, guitar tracks running through a chorus pedal, warm guitar leads, analog synth melodies, mixed with light pads. In 2020, after establishing a presence on various indie blogs and playlists, he felt that it was time to slow down, collecting his ideas and creating something more cohesive and consistent. Musically, this was a dream scenario for him – meanwhile the full context of the global situation was horrible. This strange emotional contrast is what inspired the sound for his EP ‘Nature Machine’, released with a new record label, Nice Guys Records. The 2021 year marks a new turning point in his whole project: surfing on the wave of “YKWIM?” worldwide TikTok success, Yot Club has worked on a new six-tracks EP, ‘Santolina’. Funkier than ever, it would be the second EP Yot Club releases with Nice Guys Records.

‘Santolina’ begins with lead single ‘Alive’, with clean, chiming guitar riffing as open and broad as the plains before Kaiser’s vocals enter: “Straight lines, cul-de-sacs, white flowers and the TK/Bring back memories you’d rather just leave dead.” Second single ‘Hole’ unfurls under a sedate, kaleidoscopic spiral of electric guitars and a subdued drum machine beat, while Kaiser’s vocals, spacey and apathetic, lurk like a Gen Z Lou Reed. Third single ‘Deer Island’, a spritely morning gallop of drum machine and easy-going guitars, namechecks the titular piece of land off the coast of Biloxi, MS. It’s the last piece of something before endless miles of nothing, a tiny, fragile holdout in the clutches of the Gulf of Mexico.

On ‘Santolina’, Kaiser presents a record not avoidant of but rather in conversation with all those things that make modern America a hulking, unsustainable—but somehow still beautiful—weirdo wasteland: TikTok, corporatism, beige sandstone homes, private desert communities, manicured lawns, suburban surrealism. All in between are the people trying to make sense of it all. Yot Club is right there with you.


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