Yova Release "Feel Your Fear" Single Bundle || Watch "An Innocent Man (Live)" Now

Experimental pop duo - YOVA - have released a “Feel Your Fear” single bundle. Featuring the brand new single “Feel Your Fear” and an instrumental version, the bundle also includes a special acoustic version of the track “An Innocent Man (Live)”.

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR “AN INNOCENT MAN (LIVE)” HERE STREAM THE "FEEL YOUR FEAR’"BUNDLE HERE

Originally featured on the band’s acclaimed debut album ’Nine Lives’, Yova have prepared a special stripped back session version of “An Innocent Man” for their latest single bundle release. The track was originally released in 2022 with an award-winning video by Jess Cope of Owl House Studios, which went on to also scoop the Best Animation Music Video at the New York Animation Awards. Watch it back here.

The track arrives as one of a bundle of tracks for new 2023 track “Feel Your Fear”. Letting loose a runaway freight train of jumpy guitar rhythms and primal percussive rumblings, the new single from the duo of Jova Radevska and Mark Vernon is one intended to heighten the senses and toy with what drives our fears and failings. As Jova explains:

“”Feel Your Fear” is about the human’s fallible nature to form addictions in order to alleviate pain. We can do this with a person too: we can believe that their company will save us from the challenges we are facing and we cling to that, when in fact we haven’t addressed the real cause of those feelings. It is often our insecurity and un-dealt trauma that makes us cling to people/substances, addictions in general.”

Citing ESG, Gang of Four, King Sunny Adé, and early Talking Heads as being amongst the subliminal influences that played into the track, “Feel Your Fear” sees YOVA deftly update their dynamic brand of alternative pop music with hints of garage rock, Afropop and funk to gripping effect.

Produced by Mark Vernon and arranged by Rob Ellis, the track was recorded between Dorset and London and also features Daniel O’Sullivan of Grumbling Fur on bass and features the legendary Terry Edwards (PJ Harvey) on saxophone. Intending to create an unshakeable feeling of restlessness, Jova Radevska’s airy vocals toe a fine line between playful and impending, while its haunting baritone sax, sinuous bass, and meticulously timed blasts of trumpet and organ all play their part in the unsettling fabric of “Feel Your Fear”. As Vernon adds:

“The sonic tapestry and rapid tempo of this track is written to convey a sense of heightened urgency: the impending sense of emotional claustrophobia and resulting fear is echoed in the narrative of Jova’s lyrics. A sense of one last rushed midnight dance before emotions inexorably spiral out of control and time literally gets swallowed up before our eyes.”

YOVA are Jova Radevska and Mark Vernon. With Vernon a seasoned veteran of the alternative music scene — having managed and recorded with John Cale and co-produced tracks on PJ Harvey’s debut album ‘Dry’ — a chance encounter with Macedonian vocalist and songwriter Jova would pave the way for their bewitching collaborative project.

Their debut album ‘Nine Lives’ received praise from the likes of Louder Than War, Electronic Sound and MOJO, with the latter hailing the album as “a beguiling debut from a duo of sonic adventurers” in their 45 star review.

With the “Feel Your Fear” bundle arriving as a compelling new offering from YOVA, expect to hear further news on plans for their second album very soon.

Yova - 'Feel Your Fear’ Bundle - Tracklisting

1. Feel Your Fear

2. An Innocent Man (Live)

3. Feel Your Fear (Instrumental