2 Comments Written by Ezzzy on March 5, 2010 – 9:30 am

Yakks was born out of frustration, hostility towards the general public,  and the mundane 9 to 5 life that was evaporating any form of creative juice attempting to flow.

Annoyed with the amount of garage bands and club music that was being played in Melbourne at the time, Yakks started jamming. In a bedroom where the roof was caving in and the cracks in the walls were so wide you could see outside,  they stripped sound back to the basics, turned up the amp and bloody reverberated the crumbling plaster onto the floor, which had a rodent hole, but no cracks.

Encouraged by the late Jay Reatard to “just do it! just go crazy!”, synth player and vocalist  Ezzy quit his day job as a screen printer and opted for a more scummy lifestyle of less is more. Drawing influences from bands such as Lost Sounds, Destruction Unit and The Screamers, Yakks began playing stripped down synth-based punk music, touching on subjects such as hardship, disease, the human condition and misunderstandings of everyday life.

Taking it to the streets mid 2009, Yakks have played alongside some of Melbourne’s greatest bands to be associated with the independent music scene, taken part in festival appearances – receiving positive feedback from both press and fans alike.

The bands current self-released cd-r is a 3 song demo, titled ‘The Dawn Fraser Demos’. Inspired by a Dawn Fraser look-alike who roams the streets and tram lines of Brunswick, gold medal around her neck and all.

The cd-r can be purchased from the band, vox-cyclops Records (Newcastle, NSW) and Missing Link Records in Melbourne, with more stores taking on the cd in the coming weeks.

Check out what all the stink is about by visiting the band’s blog and MySpace.