Scene veterans Wild Yaks are currently preparing to release Monumental Deeds on 21 June via Ernest Jenning Recording Co. Now we are lucky enough to get to premiere the band’s newest track, “Desperado.”
The single comes to us with a music video showing off the haunts from the band’s hometown of Rockaway Beach while surfing out to new sonic waters.
“Desperado was the last song to be written and recorded. Last November I drove my 79-year-old mother to Florida. I was driving but I felt like Daniel Johnston in the airplane with his dad throwing the keys out the window. I dropped my mom off at her sister’s house and kept driving south to Key West. A woman I knew from Rockaway who had been an occasional lover was house-sitting there. I hadn’t been to Key West since I was a miserable fat 13-year-old. believe it or not when I was with my mom they would serve me drinks at the bars! Nasty little man that I was! The drive alone south I listened to the entire Big Thief catalog and I cried and I cried. I was mourning a dream. For more than a year I thought about the subject of my songs “See That Girl” and “Fortune Teller” and I was gonna fall in wild crazy love. I didn’t want to understand or believe I was being manipulated. But now she was in love with somebody else I had to accept the dream was over and mourn. I like driving and crying. I hope children in passing cars look at me and think I’m insane. Key West as an old adult – I was struck by the similarities to Rockaway, the weird characters, the escapists, but more bars and restaurants and more money. I thought a lot about Jimmy Buffet and you feel him everywhere. My sometimes lover I knew from Rockaway was staying in a bungalow owned by the son of the woman who started the Margaritaville restaurant chain with Jimmy. I wrote Desperado on his guitar. The son, not Jimmy Buffet. I thought the woman and I would have a roll in the hay for old times sake but she made up the couch for me. Turns out I had hurt her too many times so casually coming in and out of her life. Me? The perennial heartbroken one?! Breaking other hearts? When I came back to New York I taught the band the song in the studio and we recorded it live on the spot in two or three takes.”
frontman Rob Bryn
Wild Yaks can be found on 15 June at TV Eye.
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Bad Dad (occasionally called Ed) has been on the periphery of the punk and punk-adjacent scene for over twenty years. While many contributors to this site have musical experience and talent, Ed’s musical claim to fame comes from his time in arguably the most punk rock Blockbuster Video district in NJ where he worked alongside members of Blanks 77, Best Hit TV and Brian Fallon. He is more than just an awful father to his 2 daughters, he is also a dreadful husband, a subpar writer, a terrible dresser and has a severe deficiency in all things talent… but hey, at least he’s self-aware, amirite?
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