Denver trio Yawpers will release a new album Human Question (ALBUM PRE-ORDER LINK) on April 19. New Noise Magazine announced the album, an album-supporting tour, and debuted the new song “Child of Mercy.”
Following their critically acclaimed and meticulously plotted concept album Boy in a Well (set in World War I France, concerning a mother who abandoned her unwanted newborn), the Yawpers created Human Question with a contrasting immediacy. The album was written, rehearsed and recorded over a two-month period with Reliable Recordings’ Alex Hall (Cactus Blossoms, JD McPherson) at Chicago’s renowned Electrical Audio. The band tracked live in one room, feeding off the collective energy and adding few overdubs. Through the new approach, 10 songs connect with an organically linked attitude and style.
“I wanted to take a crack at using these songs as therapy, really,” said lead singer and guitarist Nate Cook. “I think I’ve always been inclined to write more towards the dregs of my psyche, and explore my depressions and trauma, rather than describe a way out.”
In support of the release of Human Question, the band will tour across the United States in April and May – also a return to SXSW in March – and Europe in May and June. All currently announced tour dates are included below or here.
Track listing:
Child of Mercy
Dancing on My Knees
Human Question
Man As Ghost
Earn Your Heaven
Reason to Believe
Carry Me
Forgiveness Through Pain
Can’t Wait
Where the Winters End
Tour dates:
2/19 Belly Up Aspen CO US
3/13 until 16 SXSW Austin TX US
4/16 Record Bar Kansas City MO US
4/17 Off Broadway St. Louis MO US
4/18 The Cooperage Milwaukee WI US
4/19 Liar’s Club Chicago IL US
4/20 Showboat Saloon Wisconsin Dells WI US
4/21 7th St Entry Minneapolis MN US
4/26 Oriental Theater Denver CO US
4/27 Wheelhouse Albuquerque NM US
4/29 Sundown Tavern Ruston LA US
5/1 Smith’s Old Bar Atlanta GA US
5/2 The Radio Room Greensville SC US
5/3 Local 506 Chapel Hill NC US
5/4 Pearl Street Warehouse Washington DC US
5/5 Berlin New York NY US
5/7 Beachland Ballroom Cleveland OH US
5/8 MOTR Pub Cincinnati OH US
5/9 The Basement Nashville TN US
5/10 Stickyz Rock ‘N’ Roll Chicken Shack Little Rock AR US
5/11 Mercury Lounge Tulsa OK US
5/25 Borderline London UK
5/26 Broadcast Glasgow UK
5/27 O Rileys Hull UK
5/28 The Donkey Leicester UK
5/29 Burston Crown Diss UK
5/30 Mijl Op Zeven Festival Ospel NL
6/1 Q-Factory Amsterdam NL
6/5 Vera Groningen NL
6/6 Nochtspeicher Hamburg DE
6/7 Orange Blossom Special Festival Beverungen DE
6/7 Orange Blossom Special Festival Beverungen DE
6/8 Beatpol Dresden DE
6/9 Monarch Berlin DE
6/11 Ziegel Oh Lac Zurich CH
6/12 Sunny Red Munich DE
6/13 Substage Caf_ Karlsruhe DE
6/14 KKF Bar Schwabisch Gmund DE
6/15 In Die Musik Festival Hof DE
6/16 Manana Manana Hummelo NL
6/28 Raut Oak Fest Riegsee DE
6/29 Brotfabrik Frankfurt DE
6/30 Muddy Roots Europe Waardamme BE
7/24 FloydFest Floyd VA US
Photo credit: Megan Holmes
