Listen: Empty - Yoste

Empty is the latest release from Brisbane-born bedroom singer, songwriter and producer Yoste. With a lush, atmospheric atmospheric and earnest vocals, Empty is a song full of yearning and bubbles with a feeling of untapped desire.

Empty is lifted from Yoste’s forthcoming EP, Try To Be Okay, due February 15. It follows recent single Blue, also featured on the forthcoming EP, and a track that Empty follows on from. Describing the track, Yoste says:

“Empty follows Blue deliberately. In many ways it carries the same themes but finds some resolution. It's about recognising that I will never fully understand most of myself or what's around me, but there's peace in not knowing. Again, I wanted to counterbalance those quite heavy ruminations with positive instrumentation, something people could dance to and not necessarily think about. That's quite key to my approach in general - I want all the songs to have depth for those who care to look, but I don't want to beat anyone over the head with my esoteric angst.”

Check out Empty below:

Let’s hide out, just you and me, no more subtleties. I know now, I’ll never leave, I’m fast asleep. Try to play it cool, late nights getting through, waiting up for you. Falling at your feet, lost in apathy, still you wait for me. Slow light, within my lungs, I’m overcome. We collide and come undone, I lost someone. Try to play it cool, late nights getting through, waiting up for you. Falling at your feet, lost in apathy, still you wait for me.

Stream: Eternity - Yóste

If I could be anyone, anywhere else... When everything I think about goes wrong now... Nothing is ever right, everything I think about... Close my eyes, picture how everything goes wrong now... Is it true that none of us know, 'cause I think I'd like to go home... Hide out at the golden coast, lost in this spirit of mine. Socials: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/soundsofyoste Twitter: https://twitter.com/soundsofyoste

Eternity is the new shoe-gazey ambient pop release from 20-year-old Brisbane solo artist Yóste. The artist, real name Kurt Sines, cites influences including Bon Iver and Active Child, and you can hear those come through in the dreamy reverb-heavy melodies on Eternity.