Cayucas announce new video & debut album for April 2013
Cayucas have announced a new single, the perfect sunshine-pop nugget ‘High School Lover’. Chase away those January blues with the effervescent new video here: http://www.vevo.com/watch/cayucas/high-school-lover/US38W1325609
The video, directed by Cameron Dutra, features punchy neon visuals and a glitchy “live action stop-motion” effect developed by Dutra himself. It stars lead singer Zach Yudin as well as his band, which includes twin brother Ben on bass, Banah Winn on keys and Casey Wojtalewicz on drums.
The debut album Bigfoot is released on 30 April 2013 via Secretly Canadian.
“Positively hums with feel-good, sun-soaked Californian pop vibes. Lovely” The Sunday Times
“It may be winter outside, but not where these purveyors of endless summer-pop live” The Guardian
Artist: Cayucas
Title: Bigfoot album
Release Date: 30 April 2013
Label: Secretly Canadian
Formats: CD / LP / Download
Cat Number: SC256
Website: http://cayucas.com I http://www.secretlycanadian.com/
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io8PqddrRIs
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Cayucas will release their debut album Bigfoot on 30 April, via Secretly Canadian. As Cayucas, band leader Zach Yudin has created a sound steeped in his sunny California roots, each track a perfectly crafted pop zinger. His catchy, addictive melodies are buoyed by syncopated rhythms and a breezy chorus of vocals. Built in layers and with exquisite atmospheric detail – the hiss of a needle in the groove, steel drum reverb, ambient party noise – Cayucas fixes to a place and time filled with the warmth of nostalgia and the joy of youth.
Cayucas: Pronounced “ky-yook-us”, it’s the (slightly misspelled) name of a sleepy little seaside town in San Luis Obispo County, California. That town, Cayucos, has hardly changed in the last 50 years, a far cry from the gentrified tourist traps parading showily down the nearby coastline. In the early 1960s, the surfing craze hit. There was one bar around which local kids congregated back then, the site of helpless crushes and fights and games of pool, a place whose jukebox soundtracked innumerable teenage years as breezy summers rolled into mild winters and back around again. The bar has since disappeared, but as Zach Yudin, who named his band after the town, will tell you, the place still holds on tight to its propensity for dreamy, lazy, bonfire-lit nights worth getting moony-eyed about.
Cayucas’ debut album bears little resemblance to the sound of modern California that’s been so omnipresent over the past few years: mentions of weed, lolling around on the beach and musical references to Dick Dale are conspicuously absent. Instead, Bigfoot possesses flirty rhythmic sensibilities both snappy and sparkling, a rosy, near-tropical warmth, and a loose and conversational feel that position you right in the line of Yudin’s wry gaze.
Yudin’s no dilettante at this pop lark. Having cast aside a childhood love of sports during high school, he switched his focus to music, with his principal aim being to start a boyband in the vein of ‘N Sync or O Town and call it Cali Boys. For better or worse, that phase also ran its course – though he still sites Beach Boys as an influence – and Yudin became the first undeclared major to attend Cal Poly, the agricultural college where he ended up studying music and Japanese, learning guitar and writing rock songs in the process.
Having moved to Japan for a year to teach, he became inspired by the country’s love of electronic music, started writing Daft Punk-style material while he was out there. As part of Yudin’s foray into electronic music, he began experimenting with the vinyl sampling that would form a crucial component of Cayucas’ early sound “I was sampling old rock albums – by bands like the Beach Boys, the Tornadoes, the Animals – trying to put together these quirky little songs,” he says. Although he set aside the synthesizer, this braiding together of proto-pop group classics fed directly into Bigfoot, encouraging Yudin’s predilection for the boyband (if a little classier than O Town’s classique oeuvre) in the process.
On leaving Japan, Yudin returned to Santa Monica, the opposite end of California’s coast to where he had grown up in Davis. Reflecting on the bonfire-lit evenings he spent as a student, and even older memories of the holidays he had taken with his family as a child, he started making music as Oregon Bike Trails, which collated both his samples and the music in which he had become engrossed since returning home. He posted a few new songs online, where they caught the eye of Secretly Canadian, and he later changed his recording name to Cayucas to better reflect the feel of the music he was making; as beguiling and absorbing as the warm breezes that mark Cayucos’ seasons, and just as hard to want to leave. Though strangely enough, Bigfoot was recorded up in the chilly Pacific North West – in Oregon, with Secretly’s Richard Swift (The Shins, Damien Jurado, Foxygen) in charge of production.
Bigfoot is the result of Swift and Yudin’s sympathetic working relationship, and positivity one of its brightest qualities, even when recalling missed opportunities – there’s no space for downcast vibes here. “I like songs with a certain simplicity,” says Yudin. “I was trying to write an album that was pretty pop.” Upcoming single ‘High School Lover’ (due for release in March) is perhaps Bigfoot’s most quintessential song; centred around a chiming rhythm ripe for shimmying, and a tale that sums up Yudin’s taste for his own personal nostalgia. “There was this girl in 8th grade that sent me all these letters one summer. I kept them all – on the bottom of each one, she had written, ‘Call me at this number.’ I never called her. The first day of school, she came up to me and asked, ‘Hey, did you get those letters I sent you?’ I was like ‘…no.’ Why did I do that?!”
For now though, missed opportunities are far from Yudin’s mind. Having worked at a local independent jazz label for a couple of years, he’s now making music full-time, rehearsing with his new band for Cayucas’ first live shows, running along the Venice Beach boardwalk, and hitting a certain bar each night to play pool and hang out. Some places don’t change.