We are the four Yankou brothers. We grew up in Hawthorne, NY in Westchester County but now three of us live in the Bronx. We've been making music since 2001. Our second full length album is now out on Tapeworm Records.
For booking or whatever else: Brian's number is (914) 564-2764 or e-mail brianyankou@gmail.com.
Reviews of No One and the Somebodies shows:
“Imagine a punk band and an indie-rock band engaged in an Ultimate Fighting-esque tournament, and you’ll come close to the sound of New York’s No One and the Somebodies. Loud and quasi-chaotic, the four played an impassioned set…
…NOatS songs came across as completed entities that had been smashed about a bit, and often they ended in noisy chaos.”
-Meghann Wilhoite - www.megwilhoite.com
“No One and the Somebodies has long had the most aggressive urinal-stickering campaign of any NYC band. Its lo-fi art pop crackles with zany fervor.”
-Time Out New York
".one of Westchester's most forward thinking experimental bands.”
-Christopher Vaughan - The Purchase Independent
“Their set was a manic rollick between hoarse garage-rock, frantic punk and bouncing indie-pop.
…Attendees were witnesses to bizarre waltzes, twinkling-like music boxes with flute and keyboards, and the extensive use of a piece of guard rail (that’s right, an actual guard rail) as percussion and general noisemaker.”
-Tim McNulty – Binghamton Pipe Dream
About "Suspicious Package" (TPW 003):
No One and the Somebodies - Suspicious Package
I've been waiting for this album for what seems like forever now, and now that it's finally here, it's better than I ever could have imagined. Suspicious Package is downright epic. NOATS have matured tremendously since their first album, 2004's Pretend You're Out of Control - musically, lyrically, and conceptually. I say conceptually because although I'd hesitate to call this a concept album, it comes damn close. The politics evident on 2004 songs like "Riot on the Verizon" and "Smash the MTA" have bloomed into passionate, cathartic calls of desperation and hope (and to action). Themes and motifs of the "culture of fear" run throughout the album. But the politics don't weigh down the music, which itself shows a maturity, skill level, and interplay between band members that surpasses their older material. Much of the songs move away from the pop song structure, preferring instead to build and evolve, some reaching in excess of ten minutes. And the band throws everything into those songs - in terms of emotion and sincerity, but also in terms of musical ground. NOATS have always been open to experimentation and eclecticism (a guardrail features prominently as an instrument in more than one song), but Suspicious Package elevates this to a new level, and with tremendous success. There's noise freakouts, rattling cacophonies of percussion, jittery dancey bits, tinges of post-rock, screams, shouts, whispers, and a song with a flute called, well, "Flute." But not once does the album feel drawn out or overblown. The whole thing is immediate, urgent, and heartfelt. And despite perhaps having moved beyond the narrow set of parameters that define "punk rock," in spirit and sheer energy alone, No One and the Somebodies are still "punk as fuck."
-Tim Nicholas
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Suspicious Package TPW003 - $4.50 including S&H within US
International orders ($6) click here:
For our first album "Pretend You're Out Of Control" ($11 within US)
outside US ($13) click here:
To get both together ($14 within US) click here:
or outside the US ($17.50)
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