YAWN MOWER SHARE NEW SINGLE “NEW YEARS AT THE AIRPORT”
YAWN MOWER SHARE NEW SINGLE
“NEW YEARS AT THE AIRPORT”
FROM THE NEW ALBUM I JUST CAN’T WAIT TO DIE
OUT AUGUST 15TH, 2025 VIA MINT 400 RECORDS
Yawn Mower pays homage to “The Big Lebowski” with the music video for their new single “New Years At The Airport”, and let’s just say there’s not a bowling ball in north New Jersey that should feel safe from a good old fashioned tongue bath. The single gives fans yet another glimpse of their forthcoming new album I Just Can’t Wait To Die, due out on August 15th (Mint 400 Records). Yawn Mower will celebrate the release of their new album with a record release show in Asbury Park, on August 30th, followed by multiple east coast dates in September. All upcoming tour dates are listed below.
Watch the music video for “New Years At The Airport” via Youtube
Stream the new single “New Years At The Airport”: https://orcd.co/ynxxv8n
The idea for the video, which was directed by the band’s Biff Swenson, came to them while they were all out bowling together at Shore Lanes in Neptune, NJ shares Mike Chick. “We took a quick band picture holding our bowling balls in front of the lanes. That started us thinking we should come take some good pictures at the bowling alley, which turned into let’s film a video at the bowling alley, which finally led to let’s film an homage to ‘The Big Lebowski’ at the bowling alley.”
“We constantly have 2 or 3 old-school tube-televisions going at our rehearsal space, muted of course,” shared Biff. “‘The Big Lebowski’ is a group-wide favorite that we return to often. When mapping out music video ideas for this album cycle, the thought of a bowling alley stood out early on. It gave us the ability to change up the scenery from the other videos while allowing us to present less like “a band” and more like a group of friends chilling on-screen. We don’t get to bowl as often as we’d like, but we definitely do bowl more than most folks. The homage to Lebowski also gave me the ability to pace the edit differently too. This video moves a bit slower than the others since some one-take shots force me to hang on things longer than I’m used to for most music videos. I purposely incorporated Mike’s illustrated icons, the color palette dots, lyrics on screen, and VHS static transitions to connect it to the rest of the videos for this album too. We wanted this to feel part of the whole as much as we wanted it to be the outlier. The dude abides!”
Watch the music video for “Geothermal Springs”
Watch the music video for the lead single “Rascal”
The Asbury Park, NJ band formed in 2015, and over the past decade they have released a handful of EPs and their 2022 debut LP To Each Their Own Coat. Along the way they’ve made their mark on the New Jersey scene, and shared the stage with incredible bands like Mannequin Pussy, Oso Oso, The Good Life, Hot Snakes and more. Their sophomore album I Just Can’t Wait To Die propels the band forward, with a record that’s equal parts joyful, reflective and humorously absurd. Across its 10 tracks, Yawn Mower weave together various vignettes and observations on life, both profound and relatably ordinary, holding them all in place with a bath of fuzzy guitar tones and the occasional dose of strings for an added epic or frenetic flair.
Yawn Mower began writing the majority of the songs found on I Just Can’t Wait To Die" after playing the Sea. Hear. Now festival in their native Asbury Park. “After the biggest show yet of our career as a band,” shares Chick, “we wanted to write songs that play well on a grander stage.” On the new record you can hear the palpable excitement of a band reaching for and successfully grabbing that ring. Outside of tracking drums with their friend Evan Bernard (who has engineered releases for Mannequin Pussy and Soul Glow among others), every other sound made on the record was a DIY affair; recorded, engineered, produced, mixed and mastered entirely by the band. “Our goal was to make our version of Pinkerton," says Chick, “A raw, rough around the edges, noisier follow up to our debut that was entirely self-produced.”
I Just Can’t Wait To Die is also Yawn Mower’s most collaborative album to date. Where past releases had generally been the product of the bands original founders, vocalist/guitarist Mike Chick and drummer Biff Swenson, the songs on the new album were written start to finish with the full band’s creative input. “While Dana Yurcisin (bass), Rudy Meier (guitar), and Nicole Scorsone (violin) have certainly helped fill out past releases,” says Chick, “this was the first time that they were all helping craft songs at their infancy with us- as well as interjecting their musical identities into each song.” The finished album certainly sounds like a whole that adds up to something greater than the sum of its parts. “This record does a good job of highlighting everyone's strengths and personalities.”
I Just Can’t Wait To Die is out on August 15th, and Yawn Mower just can’t wait for everyone to hear it. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for more music and updates.
Upcoming Tour Dates:
AUGUST
30 - Asbury Park, NJ @ Wonder Bar (Record Release Show)
31 - New Haven, CT @ Cafe Nine
SEPTEMBER
01 - Pawtucket, RI @ News Cafe
02 - Allston, MA @ Neue Komplex
03 - Burlington, VT @ Junktiques Collective
04 - Portsmouth, NH @ Button Stage Factory
05 - Portland, ME @ Radon
06 - Rensselaer, NY @ Son of Egg
Photo Credit: Melissa McLaughlin
