YUNÈ PINKU RELEASES SCARLET LAMB EP VIA METHOD 808
HEADLINE SHOW AT LONDON’S ICA NOVEMBER 29TH
JOINING CARIBOU ON NORTH AMERICAN TOUR IN NOVEMBER
Breakout singer, songwriter and producer yunè pinku releases her anticipated new EP Scarlet Lamb, signifying a new era for the critically acclaimed, emerging talent. The EP exists sonically within pinku’s electronic sound palette, while simultaneously breaking new ground with its lush melodies, ASMR-evoking details and pop sensibility. There is a host of gothic imagery involved surrounding the project, with Jane Eyre, Dracula and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein cited as particular lyrical touchpoints. That fascination connects back to yunè’s love of gothic fables and to her Catholic schooling, as well as the current societal pertinence of ideas of responsibility and culpability, all of which makes Scarlet Lamb her most immersive project yet. Alongside the project’s arrival, she announces her headline show at London’s historic ICA on the 29th of November, purchase tickets here.
Last summer, yunè made her US debut with live shows in New York and LA and a number of standout festival sets, including Primavera a la Cuitat, Hard Summer in LA, Sziget, and Field Day. She kicked off 2024 supporting Barry Can’t Swim, with further festival shows across the summer. Starting November 8th she’ll head back out on the road to support Caribou across his North American tour including dates at The Shrine in LA, the Great Hall at Avant Gardner in Brooklyn and Toronto’s Massey Hall.
Speaking on the EP’s significance yunè pinku shares, “Scarlet Lamb is an exploratory project of innocence and guilt through a subversion of the Sacrificial Lamb fable. Most of the songs are led by some sort of grapple with senses of shame, or ecstasy. It’s a change, sonically, for me, leaning more into trip-hop and alternative electronic spaces and definitely takes a lot of inspiration from my own recent music-taste.”
Listeners were initially introduced to the EP with the airy and luscious single “Believe,” created with the LA-based-Canada-born electronic artist Cecile Believe, which was followed by the shimmering open-hearted anthem, “Half Alive,” with its ticking breakbeat and shimmering synth stabs. The wider record is a deeper immersion into the realms of yunè’s songwriting capabilities and world-building textures. With its rippling synth arps and chilled beats, “Reckless Sensation” can be best described as Massive Attack’s “Teardrop” for Gen Z, while “Don’t Stop” evokes imperial period Phantogram. Finally, the project arrives at “Concorde,” a romantic, headphone-ready dream-pop that further impresses pinku’s creative range.
yunè pinku stormed onto the music scene with the mesmeric and textural debut single “Laylo” in 2021, which marked the first puzzle piece of her effervescent inaugural EP Bluff. The burgeoning producer then followed “Bluff” with the critically acclaimed BABYLON IX EP. Written from a fever dream-induced lens, it saw a move away from the “sad girl garage” pinku had been making previously and envisioned a glossy, sci-fi landscape with huge, structured pop songs bolstered by her ethereal electronics, a multifaceted narrative drawing from psychology, ancient Celtic myths and Hindu stories.
Having collaborated with Logic1000 on breakout hit “What You Like,” pinku received early co-signs from the likes of Joy Orbison and The Blessed Madonna. The young artist has since received extensive press and radio support, securing her first cover feature with Interlope Magazine, followed by recent cover stories for Rollacoaster Magazine and Gauchoworld, lent her remix prowess to artists as varied as VTSS, Charli XCX, Disclosure, Hot Chip, all whilst finding key allies and support from the likes of industry heavyweights Pete Tong, Giles Peterson, Mary Anne Hobbs, Danny Howard and Clara Amfo to name a few, and fashion co-signs from the likes of KNWLS, Gucci, Axel Arigato and Jimmy Choo.
Upcoming Live Dates
* = supporting Caribou
11/8 – Vancouver, BC @ PNE Forum*
11/9 – Portland, BC @ Roseland Theater*
11/10 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo*
11/12 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater*
11/13 – Los Angeles, CA @ Shrine Expo Hall*
11/15 – Denver, CO @ The Mission Ballroom*
11/17 – Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed*
11/18 – Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern*
11/19 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem*
11/20 – Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall*
11/21 – Brooklyn, NY @ Great Hall at Avant Gardner*
11/23 – Toronto, BC @ Massey Hall*
11/25 – Montreal, BC @ L’Olympia*
11/29 – London, UK @ ICA
yunè pinku
Scarlet Lamb EP
Method 808
October 4 2024
1. Half Alive
2. Midnight Oil
3. Believe
4. Don’t Stop
5. Reckless Sensation
6. Concorde
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