YACHT Release "Psychic City" Single, New Mixtape, Instrumentals

Fresh off the release of their acclaimed new album, "See Mystery Lights" (DFA), YACHT have unleashed several new goodies. The first is the "Psychic City" digital single, packed with several remixes and b-sides. The full track list is below, and head over to RCRD LBL to download the remix by Joe Goddard from Hot Chip.

Psychic City Digital Single Track List:

1. Psychic City (Edit)
2. Psychic City (Classixx Remix)
3. Psychic City (Joe Goddard Remix)
4. Psychic City (Rory Phillips Remix)
5. Suicide
6. Waste of Time (Dub)
7. Waste of Time (Hedford Vachal Remix)

YACHT have also decided to post instrumental versions of the tracks on "See Mystery Lights" with a non-commercial Creative Commons license. They're available on the Free Music Archive. Last but not least, YACHT have put together a mixtape called Anthem of a Trinity as a companion to See Mystery Lights. It is a 37 minute long continuous mix of that reveals the music that influenced YACHT while recording the new album. It is available now on States Rights Records' website.

A message from YACHT about posting the instrumental tracks:

YACHT feels that the draconian enforcements of the major record labels on third-party users of music are deeply inappropriate to the times in which we live. These instrumentals are free to use for all non-commercial purposes, including (but not limited to): karaoke performances, confessional YouTube soundtracks, student films, personal analysis, atmospheric music, cover versions, chopping and screwing, or just to listen to if you don't enjoy YACHT's vocal performances."

A message from YACHT about the mixtape:

These are the songs which drove us to the moment when we first saw the mystery lights in the west texas sky. As we stood in the desert, facing these stars, fallen out of the universe, we wondered, "what combination of tone and chance has led us here?

Now you know.

Anthem of the Trinity is a carefully crafted, edited, and generally enhanced continuous 37+ minute mix of songs that subconsciously inspired the musical themes of YACHT's latest album, See Mystery Lights. Ranging from Arthur Russell to INXS, the Talking Heads to Bad Brains, from gnostic dance party to deep meditation (and back), "Anthem of the Trinity" is a definitive compendium of YACHT's innermost influences.

Use this mixtape freely (along with all of the other See Mystery Lights companion releases) to better understand YACHT, and possibly yourself, a little more clearly.

• Terry Riley - Anthem Of The Trinity
• Outkast - I'll Call Before I Come (Beat)
• Sandii & the Sunsetz - Bongazuna (Beat)
• Dinosaur L - Go Bang! (Walter Gibbons Mix)
• Talking Heads - Burning Down The House
• LCD Soundsystem - Us V Them
• Nirvana - Negative Creep
• Kathy Diamond - All Woman
• Dinosaur L - Go Bang! (Francois Kevorkian Mix)
• Joy Divison - No Love Lost
• Harry Nilsson - Jump Into The Fire
• Syclops - Where's Jason's K
• INXS - New Sensation
• Brian Eno - Baby's On Fire
• Bad Brains - Attitude
• Black Randy and the Metrosquad - Loner With A Boner
• Snoop Dogg (Feat. Pharell) - Drop It Like It's Hot
• Tears For Fears - Head over Heels
• Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking
• Sandii & the Sunsetz - Heat Scale - Words & Dances
• T-Pain - I'm 'n Luv (Wit a Stripper)
• The B-52's - 52 Girls
• White Rainbow - Sand Sifter Dreams Alive
• Techmaster P.E.B. - Bass Computer (Intro)

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