Taken from El Yunque, available for purchase here: https://records.manneken.org/releases

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Lyrics:

all I seem to get out of it
is a need to slow down a bit
why can't I just take it easy?
living hard holds nothing for me

and it brings me down so I get back up and get on with it
call it force of habit
problems aren't known to solve themselves
I do my best
still it
and it brings me down so I get back up and get on with it
call it force of habit
problems aren't known to solve themselves
I do my best
still it feels like

all I seem to get out of it
is a need to slow down a bit
why can't I just take it easy?
living hard holds nothing for me

MNKN008

El Yunque

Strange Tones

Taken from El Yunque, available for purchase here: https://records.manneken.org/releases

Lyrics:

is it the last time I get to have
you there to see I'm destined to dive
into the ocean that sits behind
all the emotion I hope you find

and I'm hoping 
you open
you open your heart
to find a way you find a way to find a way and finally the walls fall apart

is it the last chance I get to have
to get the one dance I never had
to follow you where you want to go
to show you I care about you so

and I'm hoping 
you open
you open your heart
to find a way you find a way to find a way and finally
you open your heart
to find a way you find a way to find a way and finally
you open your heart
to find a way you find a way to find a way and finally the walls fall apart

Two Halves

Taken from El Yunque, available for purchase here: https://records.manneken.org/releases

Lyrics:

show me what you like to wear in the summertime
in the summertime
it's so pleasant with you there in the summertime
in the summertime
tell me what you like to do in the summertime
in the summertime
take me where you like to go in the summertime
in the summertime

I don't mind if we find it to be hard to find
just hold my hand when you can hold it and kiss me grand

I've seen it, I've heard it, and I've felt it all around
made sure to take time to enjoy the one I found

In The Summertime

Years in the making, "The Question" marks a turning point for YUS. It's a delicate pop anthem, unlike anything previously released, that manages to retain the depth and soul that initially drew listeners in.

It was written in Fall 2012, revised in 2017, and released May 21, 2021. The single includes the single version from 2017, and the demo version from 2012. Both were professionally mixed and mastered in Spring 2021.

The cover art is a thought form, one of many that inspired Wassily Kandinsky during his career. This one depicts a vague feeling of affection.

Experience the song visually on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLVWzCvbRq4

The Question(Single)

The Question

Years in the making, "The Question" marks a turning point for YUS. It's a delicate pop anthem, unlike anything previously released, that manages to retain the depth and soul that initially drew listeners in.

It was written in Fall 2012, revised in 2017, and released May 21, 2021. The single includes the single version from 2017, and the demo version from 2012. Both were professionally mixed and mastered in Spring 2021.

The cover art is a thought form, one of many that inspired Wassily Kandinsky during his career. This one depicts a vague feeling of affection.

The Question - Single

The Question (Demo)

About:

Following The Question, A Way Out is the second single from YUS in a series leading up to his next album, Hyperspiritual, to be released in 2023.

The song denotes a longing for an exit from the ephemeral nature of romantic relationships, and for finding one's self within, instead of seeking outside counsel.

It was written in Spring 2012, released under the Youceff Kabal moniker in 2016, then subsequently taken down in 2018 when the YUS moniker was readopted, and revised between 2019 and 2022. The single includes a version recorded at Endless Noise in Santa Monica as a B-side. Both were professionally mixed and mastered in Spring 2021. The Bandcamp digital release includes the Youceff Kabal version from 2016, and the original demo from 2012.

The cover art is a thought form, one of many that inspired Wassily Kandinsky during his career. This one depicts Radiating Affection.

Lyrics:

If I ever
Find a way out
Would it matter
How it came about?

A way to
Forever
Be with you
I'd never 

Wanna go back
When I see ya
Knowing there's just
Nothing better

I want you
However
You want to

Can I find it in myself
To be me and no one else
For the one that I want
To be with when I can't
Find it in anything else
Hoping in and of itself
Just won't do
I'll need to
Keep my cool
Surely to
Find a way out
A way out
A way out

Credits:

A Way Out was composed, written, performed, and produced by Youceff Yunque Kabal. It was mixed by Youceff Yunque Kabal with the assistance of David Chapman, and mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann at Complete USA

A Way Out (Endless Noise Version) was composed, written, and performed by Youceff Yunque Kabal, and produced, mixed, and mastered by David Chapman at Endless Noise

Illustration by John Varley Jr

A Way Out

A Way Out (Endless Noise Version)

"20 Million" is the new single from YUS out now via Manneken Records. 

Download "20 Million" for free when you pre-order "Talisman" http://yusyusyus.bandcamp.com/album/talisman

Official Video: http://youtu.be/F_B2P3e6cQg

Lyrics:

Hey you, 
you don't seem as loud 
as the rest of the crowd. 

Don't you 
find it kinda lame 
that I don't know your name yet? 

And most of the words are just floating around, 
but the feeling is such that I must make a sound. 

And all the time I spend with you it all goes to waste now, 
and whenever I'm with you I just want a taste of. 

Pouring out my soul again, 
the sound of twenty million men. 
The way that I believe in makes 
me bound to do the same mistakes.

Composed, written, performed, recorded, produced, mixed, and designed by Youceff Yunque Kabal at home. 

Additional production from Isaac Avitia.

Mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann at Complete Mastering.

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Talisman

20 Million

Talisman is the new album from YUS, the sound of Phoenix-based artist Youceff Yunque Kabal out on Manneken Records. It was created between Winter 2010/2011 and Spring 2014 at home, and mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann in NY. It features previous singles "Nowadays" and "20 Million", and showcases Kabal's disparate songwriting and production style.

Lyrics:

What do you have to say?
Why do you have to say
what you have to say?

What you wanted,
do you still want it?

And what you want
is just what you won't.

Vees And Exes

Talisman is the new album from YUS, the sound of Phoenix-based artist Youceff Yunque Kabal out on Manneken Records. It was created between Winter 2010/2011 and Spring 2014 at home, and mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann in NY. It features previous singles "Nowadays" and "20 Million", and showcases Kabal's disparate songwriting and production style.

Lyrics:

It's starting up,
making ground and
closing up.

The beat is rough,
kept apart yet
close enough.

Don't worry much,
if it feels strange
when you touch
my heart.

Superbeats

Talisman is the new album from YUS, the sound of Phoenix-based artist Youceff Yunque Kabal out on Manneken Records. It was created between Winter 2010/2011 and Spring 2014 at home, and mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann in NY. It features previous singles "Nowadays" and "20 Million", and showcases Kabal's disparate songwriting and production style.

Lyrics:

I don't have much to say
about why I spend my day
the way that I spend my day.

It's just what I'm doing.

The Way

Talisman is the new album from YUS, the sound of Phoenix-based artist Youceff Yunque Kabal out on Manneken Records. It was created between Winter 2010/2011 and Spring 2014 at home, and mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann in NY. It features previous singles "Nowadays" and "20 Million", and showcases Kabal's disparate songwriting and production style.

Lyrics:

I can sing my
way to
a place that
I belong.

Artwork by Warmer Climes' Vlad Stoian
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Read Warmer Climes' Feature on YUS: http://warmer-climes.blogspot.ro/2014/06/warmer-mixtapes-1202-by-youceff-yunque.html

Talisman is the new album from YUS, the sound of Phoenix-based artist Youceff Yunque Kabal out on Manneken Records. It was created between Winter 2010/2011 and Spring 2014 at home, and mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann in NY. It features previous singles "Nowadays" and "20 Million", and showcases Kabal's disparate songwriting and production style.

Lyrics:

It used to be a mystery, 
it used to be a secret, 
but now I know. 

It used to be a part of me 
and I had doubts about it, 
but now i'm sure. 

I don't need you 
to help me out 
anymore.

Talisman is the new album from YUS, the sound of Phoenix-based artist Youceff Yunque Kabal out on Manneken Records. It was created between Winter 2010/2011 and Spring 2014 at home, and mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann in NY. It features previous singles "Nowadays" and "20 Million", and showcases Kabal's disparate songwriting and production style.

Lyrics:

Truth be told
I only hold in
greater hoping for
good and honest
future promise
often needing more,
but lest you know
just what it's for
you best not risk your soul.

Look in me,
those are the things I see:
- your need for simplicity
- the man that I want to be
- the world that I want for we
- the one for me
Are you the one for me?
The one to bring another set of colors to my palette?
The one to clear up all the bad ideas that I had thought up?
The one that I can spend today with without thinking of tomorrow, without thinking about anything at all?

As of now I do not know,
it's just a feeling it could very well be so.

Movenpick

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James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream (YUS remix)

Crystal Castles - Violent Dreams (YUS remix)

How To Dress Well - Suicide Dream 2 (YUS remix)

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Newtimers - January Love (YUS remix)

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Bogan Via - Purple Catacomb (YUS remix)

Taken from El Yunque, available for purchase here: https://records.manneken.org/releases

Watch the official music video here: https://youtu.be/UKnG4Hq7iE4

Lyrics:

right now at peace and far away
that's how I like to spend my day
would you be kind enough to stay
with you it's better anyway

when you're around you take me to that place
and it's fine I find my pace amongst patterns on your dress
meshing the sound that seeps into the space
left about when we embrace finding home there nonetheless

so come with me I'm on my way to a party my friend put together earlier today
can't you see it's only you that I want and it's driving me out of my mind I'm just hopelessly stark raving

take me far away
take me far away now

MNKN005

Star Cravin'

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The Dø - Bohemian Dances (YUS Remix)

Chromatics - Lady (YUS Remix)

"Nowadays" is the new single from YUS and the first Manneken Records release. It was released digitally on Bandcamp on October 11th 2012. It is the second track from the YUS LP “Talisman” out June 23, 2014. 

Purchase the LP here: http://yusyusyus.bandcamp.com/ 

Written, arranged, performed, recorded, produced and mastered at home by YUS.

Remastered for “Talisman” by Dietrich Schoenemann at Complete Mastering.

Lyrics:
How can you know what you want want for sure 
I study you study to keep you close 
But 
Nowadays I don't keep my hopes as high 
Nowadays as I used to 
Nowadays I don't look too far into 
Nowadays I just want you

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Nowadays

Taken from El Yunque, available for purchase here: https://records.manneken.org/releases

Watch the official music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdye6TSv_3c

Lyrics:

do you do you do you still?

used to think when you could, when you felt like you would
used to sit when I stood, when you tried to be good
and you'd take it all in, every loss like a win
drew daydreams on your skin, when daydreams drew you in

and I don't even know now if I sink or if I swim
and I don't even know how

do you do you do you still think about me?
and do you do you do you still think about us?

MNKN006

Do You Still?

Taken from El Yunque, available for purchase here: https://records.manneken.org/releases

Watch the official music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_up_ft2sV-0

Lyrics: 

I don't think I can take you where you want to go.
It's not up to me now,
you're afraid of feeling how I do.

You say time is on our side,
pulled underneath the tide
I look up from below.

There is nothing left to say,
you look the other way,
it's there you now belong.


The sky shows signs of thunder,
I'm left to ponder on my own.
The static doesn't bother,
through these waves I father new roads.

You will probably be fine,
you never cross the line,
and that'll keep you safe.

Dreamers choose the other route,
our futures never out 'cause
we don't have for long.

Music composed, written, performed, recorded, produced, mixed, and designed by Youceff Yunque Kabal at home in Phoenix, AZ and Long Beach, CA between 2012 and 2018.

Mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann.

El Yunque is the third album from American artist YUS, following 2010's Palms and 2014's Talisman. Inspired and named after the tropical rain forest in Puerto Rico, it combines elements of latin, afrobeat, electronic, and pop musics to form its own unique sound. It was created between Spring 2012 and May 2015, and revised in 2018.

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Ride For Tide

Initially created 1/2/2015. 

I released this song earlier this month via my Bandcamp Fan Club, where subscribers were able to listen a few weeks before I decided to upload to SoundCloud. If you'd like to support my work, please click on the "Buy Now" link, and subscribe for as little as $3/month. If that's not within your reach, you can also just share the song to your social media account, and tag me @yusnotyus so that others can learn about my work. Any and all support is highly appreciated. Thank you.

lyrics:
where do we go from here? 
do we stop when it's not clear? 
when it becomes almost impossible to see the looming possibilities 
that lie somewhere between the lines 
the one that knows the ones that finds 
and that i wish that i could be all of the time 

can i go to bed knowing that i could write instead? can i go on without attempting to make sense of all that tempts me when i do just as I please? it's such a tease, and in the worst of ways i swear, the feeling roams and then it's there, and i'm not ready for it. 

where do we go from here? the question sums up all the fear, and meets a contingent of hope, i find a way to answer, cope, it's all i know

Where Do We Go From Here?(Demo)

Taken from Favorites Remixed III, a compilation of remixes that I put together between 2012 and 2020. Follow @chairlift on SoundCloud, and get the original and all their amazing music!

I started this one in 2012 when their album "Something" came out, but didn't finish it until this year because of creative frustration. I took a long break on it between 2013 and 2019, so yeah, but I like how it came out, and hope you do too!

Favorites Remixed III

Chairlift - Ghost Tonight (YUS Remix)

Taken from Favorites Remixed III, a roundup of remixes that I put together between 2012 and 2020. Follow @azealia-banks on SoundCloud, and get the original and all their amazing music!

I made this one for the remix contest she ran when "Broke With Expensive Taste" came out, and though it didn't win, I think it's way up there with the best. I love you Azealia!

Azealia Banks - Chasing Time (YUS Remix)

Taken from Favorites Remixed III, a roundup of remixes that I put together between 2012 and 2020. Follow @asvpxrocky on SoundCloud, and get the original and all their amazing music!

I made this one in 2012 when "LONG.LIVE.A$AP" was announced, and mostly because I felt the original went too fast. I originally uploaded it to SoundCloud then, but this is an update to that one, and mastered correctly too. Enjoy!

A$AP Rocky - Goldie (YUS Remix)

YUS is the sound of American artist Youceff Yunque Kabal. Drawing from an eclectic set of influences, YUS creates emotive soundscapes that strike listeners with their depth and impactful lyrics.

Contact: info@yusnotyus.com

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