I love YACHT

So cheap! But the tunes are great - really!

summer song was my summer song

plus video is tapeheads tribute

Yeah YACHT is great.

yeah i love guys who enthusiastically promote ripping off audio software comapnies

http://www.analogindustries.com/blog/entry.jsp?msgid=1232779669878

btw fuck this guy

I miss him in The Blow.

Wow, that link. See a penny, pick it up -- quite literally

Maybe when he hits the big time (because he is danceable!) he can pay for the software he stole.

He offered to pay for it

i guess he was just being honest (and a bit stupid). y'know, i'm not saying that makes it right.

the new single definitely samples the sound ichat makes when you get a new message

i dont 'get' this band

worst show i've ever seen

unbelievably bad. hurt to watch. ironic hipster trash

music in the summer song wasn't too bad though

just read that article, it's funny, I don't have any cracked audio software any more and the only software I've paid for beyond my DAW is an Audio Damage plug-in. Discord v2, modeled after the Harmonizer that Tony Visconti used on the drums on the Bowie/Eno/Iggy Pop Berlin records.

http://www.audiodamage.com/effects/product.php?pid=AD011

it's pretty cool.

jaxon, this is why I like you :)
when i saw him open for LCD Soundsystem a couple years ago i was honestly embarrassed for him - aside from being the worst act i'd seen in years and years, my thoughts were pretty much exactly as you said: ironic hipster trash. what a load of bullshit, and the whole software stealing thing seems to fit right in with the aesthetic. ugh.

I really liked the psychic city song, but in a way that meant I never actually wanted to hear anything by this band ever again. Love that song tho!

good album imo, i can imagine it being a rough go live though

I saw him/them at a festival last year and had a good time! I guess seeing them do a bar show you are missing a few vital ingredients: sunshine, cider, and the knowledge that by being in this tent you are missing some really shitty alt-country acts on every other stage

I bet they'd be at their best outside, I liked their video where they were just performing on the street.

mike, it mighta been the same lcd show. i know it's kinda hard to do electronic stuff live, but maybe if he got a band instead of just him onstage dancing like an asshole singing along to the songs. just reminded me of the worst electroclash shit.

He sucked opening for LCD in Chicago, for sure.

just reminded me of the worst electroclash shit.

^^^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6unpB53eG8w

Is the live show just him now? When I saw him it was him + computer slideshow/animation + a woman, also singing and dancing (I don't think it was her from The Blow cz I think they'd parted ways by then). Which was I guess a bit more to look at than just him - the dancing would've been kind of corny on its own, but they were pretty sharply synchronised.

I really liked the psychic city song, but in a way that meant I never actually wanted to hear anything by this band ever again. Love that song tho!

this is where i'm at now

classix remix is amazing. it's just a lovelier, tighter, faster version of the song & basically it makes it sound like it should have all along. one of my favourite songs for a long time.

Sex tape scandal!

http://laist.com/2016/05/09/yacht_sex_tape.php

lol huh

this sucks.

i hope the person who stole this tape is discovered and held accountable in some way.

how come there's a band called yacht and a band called yachts? it's v confusing and now sex tapes are involved. shitty for someone to leak tho obviously

lol looks like a bullshit publicity stunt

https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/yacht-leaked-sex-tape-fake-hoax-trolling

Bullshit is right. Revenge porn is a real thing that makes some people's lives hell, and for them to pimp a new single by pretending it happened to them is fucking gross.

eh

i stand with YACHT

Cool stand.

Bullshit is right. Revenge porn is a real thing that makes some people's lives hell, and for them to pimp a new single by pretending it happened to them is fucking gross.
--Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever)

Lmfao

Fuck you too.

like in the golden age of the music blog

JF is right, and shit like this is what makes me want to kick hipsters in the nuts in the street tbrh.

i don't think the target of this joke/stunt is victims of revenge porn, more like the weird discourse that pops up around/exploits these events.

If they faked a rape would you say the same thing?

no

i see what you mean. that's a good point.

i don't think the target of this joke/stunt is victims of revenge porn

Well I don't either, but to exploit the epidemic of it just to drum up interest in a new single maybe a few thousand people would ordinarily care about in hopes that a few thousand would become several thousand just pisses me off. Debut your video on Pornhub or something. Don't write a big sympathetic post about someone betrayed your trust when no such fucking thing ever happened to you. People have to write real versions of that post every day, and doing so makes that probably the worst day of their lives. For YACHT, it was completely artificial and money-driven.

Damn, Trayce nailed it to the wall there.

What if instead of making fun of your bad posts I rolled up and shitted on your dog

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8cavxA10Gc

oh I guess people now think it's funny to post joke songs itt

this is a serious song about disappointment

it's a cover of a robert johnson song

what YACHT did was maybe a bit misguided, but nobody deserves to have that music attributed to their brand

i honestly had NO IDEA how corny they were. all i remembered about them was psychic city

this has been a trying time for everyone

One of those band names that I would just never pay attention to. They're a little like Pomplamoose.

"This was not designed to make money or sell records, but to explore the intersection of privacy, media, and celebrity."

oh.

please.

she's swiping left to some fine ass dudes wtf

Did no one tell them that this could and probably would backfire on them? Congratulations YACHT, you have now reducted your career down to a one item joke.

^otm

yacht should not have lied abt aliens being real

really loving the "frankly, we're disappointed" tone they give in their tua culpa

right? they were just exploring, they are explorers!

they've spent a decade creating multifaceted projects that unfold over time!

Did no one tell them that this could and probably would backfire on them? Congratulations YACHT, you have now reducted your career down to a one item joke.

― Elvis Telecom

they had a career?

seriously yacht aren't a band, they're a vignette on this year's "black mirror" christmas special

Kat Bee
‏@katbeee
Friendly reminder YACHT collaborates w/ known domestic abuser, so remember this when they claim to "support victims"
http://www.laweekly.com/music/adam-forkner-aka-white-rainbow-will-not-face-criminal-charges-in-alleged-domestic-assault-6762519

have they collaborated with Forkner since his domestic abuse was made public?

i do not know, but i think a lot of the discussion around the white rainbow and the healthcliff beru incidents are that these men are often known to be dangerous in scenes but somehow enabled and not called out on their behavior for many years

My takeaway from all of this is "this is not the best way to learn about the existence of a band"

Hah, the same with me too.

my take away was to youtube 'yatchting type' cause i had forgotten how that song went.

The fact that they didn't realize that people might think that their crying wolf about a sex tape might provoke the exact type of reactions leads to believe they aren't as media savvy as they think.

hope 'white rainbow' dude understands how rainbows work

it sounds like a shitty faux-clever name for a white nationalist blog

still think yacht's a good band name. i also △ all the triangles because they harken back to a simpler time at the beginning of this decade.

I now see that 'white rainbow' is an already used term for moonbows and fogbows, so we are ok

I was also mad at Bill Callahan for saying "they say black is all colors at once" in a song about a well, but what can you do

spectrumsplaining

what a disaster for rainbows

tbh referring to 'moonbows' as 'white rainbows' is a confusing disaster, and someone should have pushed back on this

what a disaster for rainbows

^^^ this was the working title for A Moon Shaped Pool

new △pology from Y△CHT:

First off, we’re sorry.
The reaction to this endeavor highlights a glaring error we made in positioning ourselves as the victims of a leaked sex tape. We understand that positioning it that way from the beginning was an egregious mistake, and are so ashamed we hadn’t considered this beforehand.
Yes, this was all a “hoax” or “PR stunt,” and one we were so excited to share. While there is inherent deception in pulling a hoax, it was never our intention to mock or make light of anyone who has been a victim of a privacy violation like the one we mentioned. This was a lazy starting point for what we wanted to be a much more fun story about the expectations of a sex tape and the frenzy surrounding the taboo of sex, especially juxtaposed with our own non-celebrity. We failed to tell that story. Instead we told a much darker and more disturbing story.
We’ve been going back and forth on what to do about the music video this was all supposed to lead up to. We were leaning towards not releasing it at all, but we think it’s important that people be able to see and assess for themselves our intent.
So here it is: https://www.facebook.com/JashNetwork/videos/1145980565466351/
We take full responsibility for what has happened, and we are truly sorry. We know we’ve broken a bond of trust with many of our fans and friends. Thank you to those that called us out and helped us to understand the gravity of the mistake we made. We should not have hinged this entire project on the fiction that we were the victims of a leaked tape, and we’re equally disappointed in ourselves for taking so long to get over being shocked at the response and write this apology.
After all is said and done, of course you should be mad at us. We’re mad at us too.
Love,
Jona & Claire
PS: We’re sorry for our shitty non-apology yesterday, too. There’s no justifying it. We clearly didn’t get it then. We get it now.

pretty good apology! let's all do like we were gonna do in the first place and not watch the video!

Jash?

new song is pretty catchy

so fucking dumb

i remember liking that yacht song about los angeles and also jona did good stuff when he was in the blow and also lol o dear

i dont 'get' this band

― butthurt (deej), Wednesday, August 5, 2009 5:04 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

worst show i've ever seen

― jaxon, Wednesday, August 5, 2009 1:39 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

unbelievably bad. hurt to watch. ironic hipster trash

― jaxon, Wednesday, August 5, 2009 1:40 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

1st interview, but conducted before the (second) apology
www.papermag.com/yacht-speaks-to-us-about-their-sex-tape-hoax-1791237681.html

Yacht is very disappointed in Jezebel!

The most sanctimonious people are the only ones keeping yacht's name in headlines I swear

Y'all know this song was originally by Family Fodder...?

https://youtu.be/F-Ca61aoeZU

It's not like we're not feminists or whatever.

Claire L. Evans: A lot of our projects in the past have been high-concept or gimmicky about media

...

Yeah, I mean that's something we're always worried about. We don't want to be a gimmicky band.

Make up yer mind, lady.

We got our friends together and made something goofy on the blockchain. It’s been so long since we’ve had fun on the Internet!

Our NFT bumper stickers are priced cheaper than most IRL bumper stickers & minted on the energy-efficient Tezos blockchain! https://t.co/SrqzuCuYGt

— ʏ 𝗔 ⊂ ᴴ ᴛ̞ (@YACHT) April 9, 2021

https://i.imgflip.com/2ctbn5.gif

Is one of them the sex tape?