Emerging like a mirage at the intersection of nostalgia and post-human dreams, Kazakh imprint soak return with its third full-length excursion, presenting ‘farewell the past‘, a haunted and healing artefact from Saint Petersburg-based sound sculptor yeyo.
Having first flickered into the soak multiverse via a radiant contribution to the label’s 2024 winter constellation, yeyo now steps fully into focus, dissolving genre boundaries with the quiet intensity of someone who’s spent more time listening to ghosts than trend forecasts. On ‘farewell the past‘, yeyo triangulates a phantom signal between decaying trip-hop memories, IDM’s emotional geometry and ambient’s vaporous afterglow. It’s a world where whispered poetics hover like ancient code, softly dismantling the scaffolding of toxic masculinity with the force of a lullaby.
Among the spectral highlights, our pick is ‘memory ocean’ – a final transmission that feels less like a track and more like a place you arrive at in a dream you didn’t know you were dreaming. Opening with elongated, shimmering arpeggios that echo like forgotten club nights heard underwater, it drifts with glacial elegance into a sonic architecture of melting ice and glitched echoes. Think beatless dub techno murmured through fog, if the fog had feelings.
‘farewell the past‘ is scheduled for release 25th April via soak Records. Order a CD copy from Bandcamp.
TRACKLIST
1. look at me
2. indoor cloud
3. in sight (ft a b)
4. through sleep
5. nothing to do
6. flam 4 life (ft a b)
7. I wish I could take it all back
8. miss you
9. memory ocean