YACHT - Photo by Ricky Tompkins

Photo by Ricky Tompkins

LA-based disco/punk duo YACHT recently announced their new album I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler via Google Maps, today they share its grooving title track. Previously they already announced the artwork via fax and shared the tracklist via Buzzfeed in the form of animated GIFs. Looks like Jona Bechtholt and Claire L. Evans are testing the endless possibilities of this modern world, despite having quite a sceptical opinion of it on their new single. These are the lyrics for the tune:

Crowdsourced cults, all lit up on LED: next thing you know, you’re sipping on a battery.

Infinitely scroll through a SWAT team on the sidewalk, serving death by remote control and unrestricted sidearms.

I thought the future would be cooler. I thought the brave world would be newer.

Loving comes easy (Nothing new) but liking it ain’t free. (Underneath the sun) We save our face in public (I can’t save you) when we erase each other privately. (You’re already gone)

Got my broken heart—I got it sold right back to me—by an algorithmic social entity!

I thought the future would be cooler. I thought the brave world would be newer.

Looking for the edge of our unrendered world. I don’t know what we’ll find; Oh, here comes tomorrow!

I thought the future would be cooler. I thought the brave world would be newer.

The new YACHT album arrives later this fall via Downtown Records. Witness the new lyric video for I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler right here.


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