Yakkie release new song ‘Kill The Cop Inside Your Head’
London-based DIY punk supergroup YAKKIE have released a brand new single!
The track, titled Kill The Cop Inside Your Head, is the title track and opening song from the band’s upcoming debut album, Kill The Cop Inside Your Head, which is scheduled to be released in February next year, via self-release. The single is available now exclusively via Bandcamp.
Speaking about the new single, vocalist Janey Starling shares, “this is a song against self-defeat. The cop in your head will talk you out of your own power before you’ve had a chance to taste it. He wants your despair to calcify into defeat so you roll over for fascism and tell yourself there’s nothing anyone could have done to stop it. He tells you that there’s no practical alternative to this soul-sucking meat grinder that is late capitalism. If you don’t kill the cop inside your head, you will become him.
The concept of the ‘cop in the head’ comes from the anti-fascist Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal. Boal believed that theatre is a ‘rehearsal for the revolution’ and ‘the cop in the head’ is a theatre game that allows people to identify and give a voice to their internalised oppressions in order to overcome them. If we want a better world, we must first be able to imagine one. To do that, we have to kill the cop inside our head. Go to the protest! Join your union!”
Listen to Kill The Cop Inside Your Head here:
Formed by Janey Starling (ex-DREAM NAILS), Robin Gatt (PERSONAL BEST, PETROL GIRLS), Laura Ankles (COLOUR ME WEDNESDAY), and Maeve Westall (JASMINE.4.T, ITOLDYOUIWOULDEATYOU), the band recorded the album live to reel-to-reel tape at Middle Farm Studios with producer Peter Miles (ARCHITECTS, TESSERACT, PETROL GIRLS). The result intends to be a raw, one-take punk record filled with political fury and emotional depth. More information about the debut album will be unveiled in due course.
Kill The Cop Inside Your Head is scheduled to be released on February 13th via self-release. Pre-orders will be available soon.
For more information on YAKKIE follow their official page on Instagram.
