Yacht
I Believe In You, Your Magic Is Real

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Err is a new label set up by two people from Tomlab and XL Recordings.
Their debut release is by Portland, Oregon artist Yacht aka The Blow’s Jona Bechtolt who has just finished a massive tour support slot with LCD Soundsystem.
The songs that make, I Believe in You. Your Magic is Real, travel well; they’re wide and warm-hearted, not unlike Bechtolt himself, bouncing without pretension from iPod to turntable, as buoyant and easy in a kid’s bedroom as they are echoing across a huge crowd, pouring from a jukebox, or woven thoughtfully into a mix tape.
What makes these songs so accessible - apart from their undeniable vigour, or their fractured, crystalline pop sensibility - is the strength of their objective.  Behind the beats and the choruses, which come from left-field and bloom into frenetic dance breaks, are big ideas about how positive thinking, optimism, and luck can replace blind faith in a world without a lot of white gloves, or magic.
Bechtolt has been a promiscuous genre-smasher since his adolescence, when he decided that playing drums in the touring punk band he formed with his older brother was more worthwhile than attending a single day of high school.  He has plied his unique breed of laptop wizardry and grunge intuition to endless collaborations, both as drummer and producer, with west coast mainstays like Devandra Banhart, Panther, Mt. Eerie, Bobby Birdman and E* Rock.
YACHT shows are uncluttered inspiring sessions of improbable dance moves and synchronized crowd-waving; the songs shudder happily into the air, and any relation-ship to "laptop music" is shattered by Bechtolt’s own strain of
shamanistic bombast.
VINYL LIMITED TO 500 ONLY.

Tracklist: 1. So Post ’Em All 2. See A Penny Pick It Up 3. We’re Always Waiting 4. Plantinum (feat. Bobby Birdman) 5. It’s All The Same Price (feat. Eats Tapes) 6. Dont Stay In Bed (*) 7. The Magic Beat 8. Drawing In The Dark 9. It’s Coming To Get You 10. If Music Could Cure All That Ails You 11. I Believe In You 12. Your Magic Is Real 13. Women Of The World (*) - european exclusive