NEW SINGLE/VIDEO “$$$$” OUT NOW
Sebastian Carandang, also known as Yeek, announces his new album Future Reference, which is set for release on August 25th via Stem. In conjunction with the album announcement, Yeek shares his latest single “$$$$” with a music video written by Yeek, Chris Cadaver, Yavez Anthonio and Malcolm Dia, and directed by Yavez Anthonio.
Following his previously released single “ETA2” featuring rap duo Paris Texas, “$$$$” signals Yeek’s continued evolution from a “maestro of melancholic tunes” and bedroom pop to a fully-fledged producer, songwriter and vocalist. Congruent to his previous release, Yeek adopts a new sound with this strip club love song, combining classic 90s R&B bass lines, percussion, and a jersey-club beat. These latest offerings demonstrate Yeek’s effortless ability to build on his already-masterful musical vocabulary, as he incorporates the subcultures and communities that continue to inform his discography.
Future Reference is a simultaneously referential and forward-thinking body of work, drawing on both Yeek’s past experiences and his musical aspirations to capture every facet of him as a musician. Organically built to exist in-conversation with his past work, he also brings in a small, close collection of friends as collaborators, including the likes of Raveena, Bakar, Jordan Ware, and Erik Bodin of Little Dragon.
Following his Coachella debut last year, both “$$$$” and “ETA2” underscore a defining new moment in Yeek’s career. Across his first two albums and two EPs, the L.A.-based singer-songwriter handled producing, recording, mixing, and mastering by himself due to the connectivity between the music and the bevy of experiences and influences he picked up living across New Jersey, Florida and LA.
With Valencia, Yeek opened himself up to collaboration more than ever before, working alongside mixing engineer Jeff Ellis (Frank Ocean, Snoh Aalegra, Omar Apollo) to create what’s been regarded as his most fully-realized body of work, along with channeling the record into the visual medium with its accompanying short film h.a.w.a.i.i..
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