Emily Yacina – Veilfall

Long Beach-based, East Coast native Emily Yacina announces her new album, Veilfall, out September 26th, and presents its lead single/video, “Talk Me Down.”

Yacina has been self-releasing music for over a decade. While she’s collaborated with some of the most notable names in indie rock, including Alex G and Rostam, she is a singular artist. Her voice is compelling and instantly recognizable, sometimes winking, lilting, or layered and chopped and used as an instrument. Illuminating Yacina’s sharp command of crystalline production, Veilfall showcases an expanded roster of collaborators operating at the highest level. Her ability to mine intangible emotions is sage-like, as she navigates formless concepts like the process of grieving, and the types of alienation that can follow in its wake.

Veilfall arrives six years after the release of her debut studio album, Remember The Silver. Veilfall is another mesmerizing entry in her catalogue. The album first began to take shape in 2021 after Yacina moved to Long Beach. For some songs she deliberately sought out collaboration with producers she knew, like Charlie Brand (Miniature Tigers). Others she sat with for years, patiently fleshing out arrangements on her own. Eventually, in 2023, she enlisted longtime friend Jonnie Baker (Florist) to help expand her vision.

Spending upwards of 14 hours a day, Baker and Yacina would re-record demo versions and add overdubs at Dream Machine Studio. Baker was a natural fit and served as a catalyst to Yacina broadening her comfort zone and opening the record up to more contributors, including Gia Margaret, Oliver Hill (Coco), and Cameron Wisch (Porches). The finishing touches were done at Alex Wernquest’s Basement Floods Records in the Catskills, where Baker and Yacina utilized a studio’s worth of analog gear to build up and polish the songs even more.

Amongst Yacina’s releases, Veilfall is sonically varied and exists in its own world. Nowhere is this more clear than in today’s single, the lively “Talk Me Down,” a track whose instrumental flourishes feel like they’re inside your chest. Over a consuming synth and an engaging drum machine beat, Yacina muses over the touch and go nature of learning to be vulnerable: “Peeking over ledges // Talk Me Down // I wish I was more of a natural // I wanna open up.” The video…. “‘Talk Me Down’ came to be from my dear friend Trish McGowan’s beat,” says Yacina. “A few years ago, she sent me a soundcloud playlist with instrumentals and beats she had made. This one immediately struck me as being very special. The lyrics and melodies on top came easily- a testament to her musicality. It’s a fun song about the fear of vulnerability, which is a major theme of the whole album.”

Around the same time Yacina was creating Veilfall, she began hosting a series of death-themed salons in an LA bookstore, during which strangers are encouraged to open up about their experiences with death and how it affects their lives. The mark that these experiences left on Yacina is an indelible current that runs through Veilfall. These death salons have driven Yacina to better understand and push through the complicated nuances of relationships, and the reverberating effects of grief. It can feel risky baring and giving yourself over to the unknown, but as Yacina memorializes with the album title, letting the veil fall can be equally as rewarding.

This fall, Yacina will support Frankie Cosmos on their North American Tour.

Thu. Oct. 9 – Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room
Fri. Oct. 10 – San Diego, CA @ Quartyard
Sat. Oct. 11 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & Harriet’s
Mon. Oct. 13 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Soundwell
Tue. Oct. 14 – Boise, ID @ Shrine Ballroom
Fri. Oct. 17 – Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
Sat. Oct. 18 – Tacoma, WA @ The Spanish Ballroom at Elks Temple
Sun. Oct. 19 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
Tue. Oct. 21 – Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s
Wed. Oct. 22 – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
Thu. Oct. 23 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst (Atrium)
Fri. Oct. 24 – Ojai, CA @ Deer Lodge
Sat. Oct. 25 – Los Angeles, CA @ Teregram Ballroom

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