Yola will release her sophomore album this summer.
Stand for Myself reunites the British singer-songwriter with Black Keys member and producer Dan Auerbach and his Easy Eye Sound label.
A press release teases that
Stand for Myself will find Yola making a sonic shift from her debut album, 2019 s
Walk Through Fire. Indeed, the first song released from the record, Diamond Studded Shoes, is big and bright, with a bit of 60s/ 70s pop and soul influence. Everybody s saying / That it s gonna be alright / But I can t help but wonder / If it s gonna be on my dime, Yola sings, combatting optimism with realism:
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A few years ago, the British-born singer-songwriter Yola was watching her country’s then–prime minister, Theresa May, announce service cutbacks while wearing some of her trademark swanky footwear. “She was talking about austerity and that they didn’t have enough money to feed starving children, so they were going to make cuts from all the services essential to keeping people alive and well and healthy and fed and sheltered,” Yola recalls. “And she did that all while wearing diamonds on the heels of her shoes. It’s people who hold the purses dictating to peop
Yola Announces New Album ‘Stand For Myself’ & Shares Single
Apr 22, 2021
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Acclaimed singer-songwriter Yola will release a new album entitled
Stand For Myself via Easy Eye Sound on July 30. Yola previewed her sophomore full-length LP by sharing its lead single, “Diamond Studded Shoes,” along with a video for the track.
The 12-track album was produced by Dan Auerbach who also helmed 2019’s
Walk Through Fire. Yola recorded
Stand For Myself, described as “a sonic shift from her debut album,” last fall with a rhythm section featuring bassist
Nick Movshon and drummer
Aaron Frazer. Co-writers on songs crafted while Yola was self-quarantining during the pandemic include Ruby Amanfu, John Bettis, Pat McLaughlin, Natalie Hemby, Joy Oladokun, Paul Overstreet, Liz Rose, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Hannah Vasanth and Bobby Wood.
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Yola, a Grammy-nominated artist self-described as the British queen of country soul, releases her anticipated sophomore album Stand For Myself this July.
The record finds Yola returning to producer and Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach at Easy Eye Sound in Nashville, the same room where she delivered her 2019 breakthrough debut Walk Through Fire. Stand For Myself drops July 30 via Auerbach s label Easy Eye Sound.
Yola, born Yolanda Quartey, gave listeners a taste of Stand For Myself on Thursday with new new single Diamond Studded Shoes. The song hears Yola depart from a country backbone delivered on Walk Through Fire, tapping instead into vintage pop-soul with a booming message.
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