Name: Hometown (Single Edit) - YVI by YVI
Duration: 3 min 37 s
Description: ‘Hometown’ takes you back in time. To when you first met your best friends in high school. To leaving your hometown for university. To leaving your childhood friends for meeting new people, desperately trying to find that same friendship, driven by nostalgia.

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‘Hometown’ takes you back in time. To when you first met your best friends in high school. To leaving your hometown for university. To leaving your childhood friends for meeting new people, desperately trying to find that same friendship, driven by nostalgia.

Hometown (Single Edit) - YVI

feat. Diederick brandsma - aka YVI - vocals

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‘not over you’ is one of those songs I needed to record in order to finish it. I felt like only guitar and vocals wasn’t enough for the song, but the chorus was so cool, that I had to figure out a way to make it work. 
I hate playing with a metronome (I always lose track of it and then after a while realize: oh wait, there was supposed to be a metronome), so I decided to quickly program a drumbeat, because maybe that would feel more natural. When I finished recording the guitar and vocals, it felt like this 808 drumbeat had become part of the song. So I decided to leave it there. Then some background vocals and the song felt like it was done. Only the bridge kept feeling weird and I didn’t know how to make it work. I sang really quietly throughout the song and I kept wanting to really shout out the lyrics in the bridge. But that also sounded wrong. So I decided to sing the lyrics quietly and layer it with a take where I really shout the lyrics. The arrangement was still not finished, but getting there. Since I was really intrigued by the way Billie Eilish manipulates her voice on her then brand new album, I wanted to do the same to the backing vocals in the last chorus. After I did that, I felt like the demo was going in the right direction, but I didn’t know how to finish it. That’s where the band came in et voila: the final, single version was born. It’s really cool to first listen to the single version with band on Spotify/Bandcamp and then listen to the demo version by only me on Soundcloud.

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YVI writes melancholic, though comforting storytelling songs. YVI is a Dutch formation founded by singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Diederick Brandsma. In addition to Brandsma, the band is comprised of childhood friends Lendert Andel (electric guitar/piano), Sebastiaan van Sliedregt (bass) and Sijmen Wijnja (drums). YVI conjures soul-raising alternative folk and indie rock akin to Damien Rice, Glen Hansard and Bon Iver.

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