{"title":"Yelka","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"krieg-and-ferien","title":"Krieg and Ferien","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn expressionist poem from 1911 at the head of a pressre-lease in 2023? Did some ChatGPT make that up? Hardly. Jakob van Hoddis' poetry moved Yolk guitarist Daniel Meteo a lot as a young person and came to mind during the recording of \u003ci\u003eKrieg and Ferien\u003c\/i\u003e, that briefly translates into \u003ci\u003eWar and Ease\u003c\/i\u003e, the third Yelka album this year. And so the poem became the title for the ten-minute closing piece: an improvised one-take funk jam with an uncertain outcome. Yelka's new album may have so much in common with Tol-stoy's novel \u003ci\u003eWar and Peace\u003c\/i\u003e, to which the album title quite obviously alludes, that it was created in a time in which we all-forwell-known reasons – have to deal with Russian society more than we have in a long time. But the Berlin trio-be-sides Meteo it's Christian Obermaier on drums and Yelka Wehmeier on bass and vocals- was more concerned with other questions in the reflection of pop music: Is this lived es-capism (i.e. ease?) or subculture, i.e. is the fight against mainstream declared here (i.e. war)? Or does one only condition the other? Does subculture in the end also only offer ease from the mainstream? Or does it automatically become mainstream in case of success?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf course, it remains appealing to read the title literally. Who doesn't go on a well-deserved vacation this year, while in the background the latest tank deliveries to Ukraine are being processed? Who doesn't know them, the vacation photos with burning forests in the background. Isn't nature also in a kind of state of war right now?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYelka, who actually only found each other as a band during the Corona pandemic, remain true to their \"10 albums in 3 years\" master plan against all odds. Sure, so do Volkswagen and the ECB: growth forever! But with Yelka we're only talking about limited 300 vinyl editions for now. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fun in the Church","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50384155967819,"sku":"2097751","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2c846edf-97f0-766c-1e4a-dc09d3c49639_8af66a79_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726288836"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/yelka.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}