Brighton rock trio YONAKA kick off the new year with unapologetic flair, sharing new single ‘Trouble Follows’.
‘Trouble Follows’ is a supercharged slice of YONAKA’s upcoming second album, Until You’re Satisfied. As the album’s most cheeky and playful moment, the track is a swaggering, bluesy wink that sets its crosshairs on an intoxicating bad influence. ‘Trouble Follows’ offers another thrilling preview of the band’s eagerly anticipated studio album, set for release on March 13 via Distiller Records. It is the latest in a string of powerhouse singles, including ‘Cruel’, ‘Problems’, and ‘Hit Me When I’m Sore’, that showcase the acclaimed band’s commanding return and renewed confidence.
Speaking about their new single, frontwoman Theresa Jarvis says, “Trouble Follows” is about being involved with someone who brings trouble to your door. We wanted to do it in a fun way, by combining a relentless beat with a sleazy groove and hard vocals that make it impossible not to break your neck to!”
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Until You’re Satisfied marks the beginning of an exhilarating new chapter for YONAKA following a journey that took bandmates Theresa Jarvis (vocals), George Edwards (guitar), and Alex Crosby (bass) to the brink before sparking a powerful resurgence. The turbo-charged, 13-track album was produced by Alex Crosby alongside Dimitri Tikovoi (Placebo, The Libertines).
YONAKA’s acclaimed 2019 debut album, Don’t Wait Til Tomorrow, with its heavy sonics and cathartic lyrics digging into Theresa Jarvis’ anxious psyche, saw them emerge with a legion of committed fans. They followed it up with mixtape Seize The Power, which to date has amassed over 200 million streams and earned them a global no.1 on the Shazam chart. These releases, along with their 2023 EP Welcome To My House, solidified YONAKA’s reputation as one of the most exciting and successful rock bands to emerge in recent years. However, behind the scenes, the footing of the group was feeling less certain.
“Being in a band for that long, you grow up together and you’re making all these changes and you get to a point where you question if you’re still in the right place,” says Theresa. “We’ve now been together for 10 years, and you go through so many different feelings in that time: you’re each other’s world, and then you don’t like each other, and then you love each other again. We really went through it. But when you finally air your problems and think about them properly, you realise you’re not ready to stop.”
Nearing the edge of the precipice for YONAKA changed their trajectory entirely. Realising what they were close to losing made the three old friends knuckle down and really fight not only for their band, but for the sound and the energy and the excitement that they’ve always wanted to bring to it. “Since then, it’s almost been like we’ve found each other again, and we’ve found the storyline and the music,” Theresa says, “and I don’t think this record now would have come without it.” Until You’re Satisfied, then, is YONAKA’s joyful reclamation of themselves, wrestled from the brink and pushed into its truest form yet.
YONAKA will celebrate the release of their new album with a series of intimate in-store performances in March before heading into a European tour in June. They have also announced a nine-date headline tour of the UK & Ireland in September and October. Tickets are available via pre-sale on Wednesday 21 January at 10am and general sale on Friday 23 January at 10am.
