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May 9, 2016With Alas Salvation, they’ve set a marker for every borderline-insane newcomer emerging in the next decade.
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May 9, 2016As we're thrown directly and unmercifully into 'Curtain Twitcher', we're already heavily bruised from the first half of the album, and will have to wait until 'Take It' to finally take a breath.
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May 12, 2016You’re unlikely to be writing critical analyses of the lyrics, but you don’t need to with a record that sounds as exciting as this. Even better, there’s melody to go with noise.
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May 12, 2016Yak have nailed their debut album, and exceeded the high expectations put on them from the beginning. Don't let them pass you by.
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UncutMay 9, 2016Yak's galloping songs are slathered with thick, fuzzed-out guitar and occasional squealing sax, pushing every available needle into the red. [Jun 2016, p.82]
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Q MagazineMay 9, 2016Yak shoot from the hip with an impetuous first-timers' racket that's rarely short of breathtaking. [Jul 2016, p.113]
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May 9, 2016Every so often a new band will arrive clamouring that guitar music isn’t dead, as if they’re mid-CPR. Yak have crash-landed clutching its still-beating heart, wearing an irrepressible grin.
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Jun 22, 2016Yak haven’t reinvented the wheel, but their work is invigorating in its own right.
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May 26, 2016The individual parts form a tasteful and varied list of NME catnip, but prove ultimately distracting on an otherwise engaging debut.