YARDS: ON TOUR!

"The side project of Southerly's Krist Krueger, Yards essays expansive, elegant post-rock in the vein of genre standard-bearers such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Rachel's. He achieves a panoramic, orchestral grandeur that avoids the sometimes sentimental bombast of some others in this realm, like Explosions in the Sky and Sigur Rós."
– Dave Segal / The Stranger

"Kristallnacht"—the song—is a slowly lurching, initially pretty piece of music that builds dense momentum out of repeated phrases. It achieves an ominousness through steadily building drones, as its whirring, brushed drums and ice-cool piano get buried under thick layers of tone.The music sounds like it's reaching for majesty, but also a bit of horror; juxtaposed with the truly ugly associations of the song's title and the video, the intended effect is unclear—that is, until the video ends with a very long hold on an image of a boy with his hands up in surrender, a white flag to the nastiness that's preceded it, perhaps."
- Ned Lannamann / Portland Mercury

LISTEN TO YARDS HERE:
http://soundcloud.com/selfgroup/sets/yards

VISIT YARDS' SITE:
http://www.yardsss.com/index.html

MORE ABOUT YARDS:
"A cauldron of methodical yet deeply moving instrumental rock that combines forlorn piano motifs with gradually intensifying, swirling drones and portentous orchestral swells." writes the Seattle Stranger of the release that initially spurred Yards, Southerly's “Champion of The Noisy Negativists”. Though not entirely instrumental, Yards directs its focus on a wider range of compositional concepts. Creating in one track what could be a dark contrasting club hit to a simplistic conceptual piece based on select subject matter.

Yards was founded as a project to exist outside of conventional musical boundaries. To ease the restrictions inherent with most bands and fully pursue ideas based on each piece being an individual release, unique unto itself. The project identifies more with film as the perfect medium to properly and fully represent an idea versus exclusively creating soundscapes.

YARDS TOUR DATES:
10.21.12 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
10.22.12 - Denver ,CO @ Seventh Circle Music Collective
10.23.12 - Kansas City, MO @ Record Bar
10.24.12 - Nashville, TN @ The Owl Farm w/Gardening, Not Architecture
10.25.12 - St. Louis, MO @ Lemp Arts w/Gardening, Not Architecture
10.26.12 - Springfield, IL @ Black Sheep Cafe w/Gardening, Not Architecture
10.27.12 - Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Mews w/Gardening, Not Architecture
10.28.12 - Ames, IA @ Alexander Recording Kompany w/Gardening, Not Architecture
10.29.12 - Sioux Falls, SD @ Old Skoolz w/Gardening, Not Architecture
10.30.12 - Minneapolis, MN @ The Cause w/Gardening, Not Architecture
10.31.12 - Madison, WI @ The Frequency w/Gardening, Not Architecture
11.1.12 - Chicago, IL @ Township w/Gardening, Not Architecture
11.2.12 - Chesterton, IN @ The Town Cellar w/Gardening, Not Architecture
11.3.12 - Flint, MI @ Flint Local 432 w/Gardening, Not Architecture
11.5.12 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Garfield Artworks w/Gardening, Not Architecture
11.6.12 - Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie w/Gardening, Not Architecture
11.8.12 - Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool w/Gardening, Not Architecture
11.11.12 - Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506 w/Gardening, Not Architecture
11.16.12 - Billings, MT @ Manny's
11.18.12 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir (HOMECOMING SHOW)