Living Theatre - Olden Yolk

The second album from duo Olden Yolk is out from Trouble in Mind on 19th May

Following on from the debut self-titled album in 2018, the duo of Shane Butler and Caity Shaffer return with their second dose of warm harmonies and gorgeous minimalism.

While the debut album showed an air of vivid lyricism and artists in love with the world as well as people it was very much about the contemporary world they inhabited in New York. The sophomore album shows the pair growing as a tandem and away from the minimalism, creating these larger expressions of expansive creativity as they toured the world.

The songwriting of Butler/Shaffer has grown to embrace the electronic world with a cinematic eye embracing avant garde punk and folk.

The lead single, 'Cotton and Cane' was a reach for the mainstream an infectious ditty of pop that has this wonderful second verse that is never-ending culminating in a crescendo, the accompanying video showed an affection for Ken Russell and the Nouvelle Vague.

Written in a feverish three month period by the pair (much like Rayland Baxter) it shows the power of communication and collaboration and shows in this wonderful album full of colour whereas the debut album much like its album cover was more still and greyer in terms of tone.

Living Theatre is out from Trouble in Mind on 17th May and they are on tour in the UK in October.