Iron Deficiency by Y!KES

Y!KES hit 2022 running

New Single, Video and Hometown Headline

Produced by Jim Pinder (Bring Me The Horizon/While She Sleeps), ‘Iron Deficiency’, the second single release of this year continues the momentum of a raucous band building up a head of steam, steadily, with every move.

Y!KES have certainly coloured the last couple of years brighter in TheZineUK’s documenting of newer wave rock. It’s always a tonic to catch up with the latest instalment of their unfolding story

There is smart spectacle in their “DIY-plus” major band ripple effect that is infectious.

All the sounds and visions focus, geared towards iconography and bigger stages.

Lyrics loosely inspired from an article highlighting various torturous methods of practice still undertaken on animals today, and anaemia induced blackouts. What’s not to like? (Y!KES)

So much to get excited about, to be honest. Like a rock-monster Duran Duran, The ‘Iron Deficiency’ vdeo is an on-brand grand bandstand - but never too distant from an obvious following of genuine friends and fans. These kind of musicians propel our rock n roll dreams.


”We Are A One Off” (Y!KES)

They actually are a one off. That’s not easy in a world with decades of glammed maverick influences across the arts, ideas and styles - but nobody has ever “seen it all before”, as these last five years bear witness.

It seems unreal that a high proportion of Zeenagers (faves, cast, crew, future picks etc) from the posts and timelines of TheZineUK doc, keep evolving to twinkle brighter as stars. Situationism as musical alchemy? Witness the amount of adventures you can only imagine when starting out. Y!KES are definitely another case in point.

The Darker Ages are terrible. Crave the Anti-Pop chaos: Y!KES play their first hometown gig of the year on 8th April. Birmingham’s Sunflower Lounge is sounding like the place to be with special guest, the multi talented Ace Ambrose, (also on a deservedly rocketing trajectory) and DnB DJ, Tommy Conflict. The headliners have put this party together with an iron EFFICIENCY! Get tickets now at https://fatso.ma/VFV1 before they're all gone, and if you’ve not already given Y!KES your “likes”, get on it while you can get near…

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YouTube https://youtu.be/dG05pIVO0Qo

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The New Consistent

THE NEW CONSISTENT has just released the self produced track ‘TURN OFF ALL SCREENS’ (stream and download link) and announces an EP ‘Stories From The 01905’ on November 20th.

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Validly titled, ‘Turn Off All The Screens’, follows The New Consistent’s debut EP - ‘Individual Social Accounts And Commentary’ which was released in March, featured three tracks produced by Austin Williams of Swim Deep and was credibly well received.

TNC has been compared to Loyle Carner, Rhythm Method, Kofi Stone and “The Streets Mike Skinner, with a Generation Z perspective”. This debut also earned the twenty year old singer and producer a ‘Rising Star’ nomination at the Birmingham Music Awards.

‘Turn Off All The Screens’ settles it’s lo-fi beats into your head insistently with a naggingly sweet synth melody. It’s a challenge to the mental health issues experienced by youth living through dystopia. “the pressure’s got too much…” Charlotte Lennon adds additional vocal to The New Consistent’s lilting rhymes and incisive lyrics of self-reflection and reassurance.

TNC describes it as “a reflection of my coping mechanism after such a difficult time and a reminder to myself that I am moving in the right direction and there is no harm in stepping back and taking a break from all the screens that seem to dominate my and everyone else’s world”.

Listen to Turn Off All the Screens on Spotify. The New Consistent · Single · 2020 · 1 songs.

As the Midlands is a cosmos of the new music industrial (r)evolution and collaboration, Raw Sound TV also a newly uploaded live performance of ‘Turn Off All The Screens’.

The New Consistent will play live shows in May 2021 at Manchester Castle (8th) and Birmingham Deadwax Digbeth (14th).

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