Yo Kinky! from Ridgewood, Queens, shares their lead debut single called “Someone I Used to Know” !
Yo Kinky is comprised of two members, Tom Unish and Laura Wight. With a wide wall of undulated guitars carrying sweet and acerbic vocals, of a simultaneously interrogative and disengaged nature, the lyrics may appear dark, but, Laura Wight’s deep playfulness keeps things buoyant and seductive. “Someone I Used To Know” starts off with a minimal, groovy synth line and vocals that belie a vulnerability just beneath the surface. “I know you and I are gonna have a rad time / Full of bad taste, of neat humor” opens the verse with a hip-hop cadence and sets forth with the insight of exciting times to come. The chorus shifts gear with a wall of sound chorus led by treated, foreboding vocal and modulated guitars. By the song’s end you can envision lives lived and loves lost amid a landscape of urban decay, as Wight sings of “gunshots right below my window panes.”