Ep473: Damon Che and Kristian Dunn of Yesness

The Vinyl Guide Interview - For Record Collectors & Music Nerds

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Yesness is a 2-piece featuring Damon Che (Don Caballero) and Tristan Dunn (El Ten Eleven). We discuss their formation, writing and recording their debut album "See You at the Solipsist Convention", math-rock, post-rock, other dirty words and lots more.

Topics Include:

Formation of Yesness
Kristian and Damon struggle to find musicians to collaborate with
The “California No”
Making an album from different parts of the country
Meeting for the first time in the recording studio
Over recording and having a lot of material to work with
Working with instrumentals vs music with vocals
Album title origin story
Songs start as riffs, song titles come much later
Strange song titles
Using extra songs for b-sides
Origin of the band name “Yesness”
The band almost became “Keister Island”
What does Damon think of the title “Math Rock”?
Genres become limiting
Not listening to Post-rock or Math-rock
What’s on heavy rotation and playlists?
The Spotify algorithm still struggles to satisfy
El Ten Eleven’s “New Years Eve” coming after 3-LP set “Tautology”
“New Years Eve” and “Valley of Fire” were conceived together
The “Yesness” debut always needed to be a full length LP
Can the Yesness LP be played live?
Yesness challenges playing live – equipment stuffups
Will they tour overseas?
Selecting the album cover
Damon recently upgraded his vinyl system
Looking for records
Status of the Don Caballero master tapes and reissues
Damon’s YouTube video channel
Grab all the pressings of your favourite albums
“Everything in between the speakers and stylus is snake oil”
Interview wrap up

Vinyl copies of Yesness "See You at the Solipsist Convention" can be ordered here.

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