From Austin, to Berlin, to LA, band members Delwin, Eric, and Obie never let the doldrums keep them down. After the release of their incredible collaborative EP Songs From A Celestial City with the legendary Reggie Watts, the queer dance/electronic trio CAPYAC are back with their latest single, “U Know Y.” Constantly collaborating while on the move, CAPYAC keep this single in house and it serves as an awesome display of musical marvel.
Identifying themselves as a surrealist band, “U Know Y” matches that sentiment to a T. The track is beautiful yet strange, uncanny yet exceptional, dreamlike yet tangible. CAPYAC knows how to create euphoric layers in their music with influences from both Detroit and French electronic music. Building off a simple yet fascinating vocal loop, the song’s heady house beat and groovy bassline carry you on its shoulders to the front of the crowd.
On the track, the band shared this awesome quote:
“When the first lung-bearing fish grew legs and crawled up on that barren igneous surface 375 million years ago, surely it felt in its toes (at that time, a sort of fin-like proto-toe) how the lichen growing on the rough and porous lava rock softened its step. Used to the sweet enveloping cushion of the sea, the fish must have felt an incredible amount of pain stepping onto rock. Everyone is saying that today’s society is just an echo of the Devonian period, and they’re not wrong. We are all Tiktaalik, living in a hostile world we are barely adapted for, grateful for every patch of wet moss we can find. Anyways, this song is about that.”
Stream “U Know Y” below and and enjoy!