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Dutch quartet YĪN YĪN release their fourth album, Yatta!, extending their unique mix of disco, funk, psychedelia and Southeast Asian music, and revealing a band whose groove just keeps getting deeper.

YĪN YĪN will release their long awaited fourth album, ‘Yatta!’ in January 2026. After touring globally with highlights such as Paradiso, Lowlands, North Sea Jazz Festival, Fuji Rock, Clockenflap and venues in all European key cities, Asian countries and topping off with an America tour, it inspired to the band to write a new album with influences from all over the globe. One major influence on Yatta! is the sound of Italo Disco – the spacey, psychedelic brand of disco music that arose in Italy in the late 1970s and blossomed in the 1980s. “It has something of a mystique,’ states the band, “because all the producers were using new recording techniques and effects and stuff like that, but there are not many pictures or videos of how they were creating things in the studio. You have to use your own fantasy and create your own story about how that music is created.” For sure, you can hear that sense of tantalising mystery on the new tracks with its endless groove and trippy backwards guitar effects

Certainly, over the last six years, the quartet from Maastricht on the southern tip of the Netherlands has built a powerful reputation for balancing an eclectic range of disparate influences and using them to forge something that is both affectionately retro and, at the same time, fresh and forward-facing.

The group’s origins lie in an experimental jam session in a remote village ballet school which resulted in a debut-album that entitles The Rabbit That Hunts Tigers followed by The Age Of Aquarius in 2022. In 2024 Mount Matsu was released and now we see the recording of Yatta!. The bands’ most complete statement to day. Recorded in full force with Kees Berkers (drums), Remy Scheren (bass) Erik Bandt (guitar) and Jerôme Scheren (keyboards)

From the beginning, YĪN YĪN have been devoted to exploring obscure global sounds with an emphasis on getting the dance floor moving – an impulse that reaches its peak on Yatta!

If there’s a general direction of travel in YĪN YĪN’s expeditions, it’s somewhere between Italy towards the east, with Asian influences coming through loud and clear. Some tunes feel like a 1960s Japanese soul-funk spy movie theme with a sample of a koto buried in the mix. “Other songs could be the throbbing disco soundtrack to a Thai spaghetti western. And there’s clues in the titles too.

Yatta! – which contains a satisfying blend of dancefloor fillers and more laidback soundscapes. “We tried to make a mix of songs that are very energetic and danceable and are party starters, but also have songs that take you on trips and are more easy. People can also just chill and relax and listen to the music and enjoy it.”

Yatta! Is the sound of four musicians finding their own, exploratory, globe-trotting groove, and having the time of their lives exploring it. Lucky for you, you’re invited too.