Rising alternative and screamo band Your Arms Are My Cocoon have released their first full-length album, to immense support from fans.
YAAMC has spent recent years almost entirely touring while releasing only a few EPs. Those EP’s have garnered YAAMC a cult following, and with their new album, Death Of A Rabbit, the band has begun their trek to being more well recognized and well received.
Death Of A Rabbit includes the usual melancholic lyrics alongside heartbreaking drops and breakdowns, with songs like “Let’s Get Married” and “Mummified Beneath the Sound Of The Ocean.” These songs share a feeling of despair and helplessness accompanied by drops in the end that serve as an even sadder encore to already gloomy tracks.
YAAMC’s sound blends Midwest emo, screamo, skramz, and alternative rock to create a soulful mix of heartbreak, resentment, and sadness in their music.
This latest project differs from the band’s usual projects as it uses a much more vast range of instrumentation and explores new sounds while showcasing the band’s evolution. This makes the band more versatile while also opening their music up to larger ranges of people.
The evolution in their instrumentation and style are best represented through tracks like “City on Fire (Closeness)” and the follow-up track “City in Ashes.”
On “City on Fire,” the “Mario Kart” countdown, from before the race begins in the video game, is sampled to almost serve as a literal countdown before a fast break in the track that allows for a beat switch.
The track “City in Ashes” uses the usual lo-fi and kind of grainy mixing that the band is known for. However, the mixing is a lot more subtle and it includes a static sort of graininess that has been blended much better with the song than previously.
The grainy static almost works as another sort of instrument or layer to the track rather than something in the background interrupting the song.
