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Album: Alas Salvation

Artist: Yak

Released: May 13

2016 has been a year mainly characterised by despondency, but Alas Salvation is here! With new music blooming from all angles, one glimmer of hope comes in the form of London trio Yak, and their debut album Alas Salvation. The album is one of the year’s top picks for us, as it addresses directly what we’ve all been missing – bona fide and snarling rock ‘n’ roll. Gone is the aftertaste of 2013’s floaty indie rock, and in zooms a sonic assault of bloodthirsty vocals, brutal basslines and gut-busting drums. Yak‘s redemptive and thunderous first album is exactly what we all need … some venom in the face of mundanity.

By Jasmin Robinson