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Yule Brothers release new music

The Yule Brothers have a new music video out. Known for their indie rock vibe Erin and Darby Yule have worked together for years, most recently as The Statistics.
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The Yule Brothers have just released their latest song called I'm On Fire.

The Yule Brothers have a new music video out for I Am On Fire.

Known for their indie rock vibe, Darby and Erin Yule have worked together for years, most recently as The Statistics.

Erin, the younger brother, started playing music before Darby did.

“I played drums for a year before Darby started to play the guitar,” Erin said. “We’ve been playing music together since we were little kids.”

They started a band and their first gig was a school dance.

“I’d been playing guitar for three months and then we got the gig,” Darby laughed.

“We played in punk bands during our teenage years. Punk and ska and then Erin and I played through all that too. After I got out of school I just really wanted to tour but we still played together too.”

That’s when Darby started writing a different style of music.

“I started writing stuff that didn’t really fit the punk band and started doing stuff on my own but that was only for about a year,” Darby said. “Eventually Erin and I kind of merged that. We brought the punk and acoustic stuff together and that’s when The Statistics really became like a thing and what we realized was that worked better than what we’d been doing and that’s the path we’ve taken. Really, even though I think it’s a much more mature, more thought out sound - that was the basis of the song that we have out now. So there’s still some punk influence. Indie rock and more acoustic but it's worlds away from what we were doing.”

Erin said it was part of the journey to find their unique sound.

“I think we just recently found songs that are really us in a way - how we want to write, how we want to sound,” Erin said. “That’s why we changed our name to the Yule Brothers - because we just felt like that The Statistics wasn’t who we were anymore. The Yule Brothers is what everybody called us anyway. We’d be working the room and people would say 'hey, it’s the Yule Brothers', and we’d think ‘hey, that’s not our band name but ok.’ It’s our signal for everything that’s been happening."

“We’ve done a lot of things in our careers,” Darby said. “A lot of really cool things that I don’t think a lot of other people get to do.”

They were on the road playing Cranworx (Whistler), The Railway Club (Vancouver, BC), Tavern on Whyte (Edmonton, AB), as well as opening for bands such as Bend Sinister, Birds of Bellwoods, Kingsfoil and Illscarlett a few years back, got nominated for a few awards at the Toronto Independent Music Awards, played to some sold out crowds, made some albums with musicians from Said the Whale, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Colin James and Wide Mouth Mason. Enjoyed some success with songs including True North that reached 40,000 streams in the first month and 88,000 streams to date. In late 2018, The Yule Brothers teamed up with Redwoods and The Fallaways to co-headline the soldout WTF Tour, playing eight dates across BC.

They teamed up with Creative BC and did a virtual tour of all of their favourite venues that had been hit so hard in the pandemic.

“I think that for us what’s really brought us to this point is a mixture of life experience and a really strong need to find out who we are and try to find an original way to let that out to the world," Darby said. “Erin and I - especially me - not to put me on a pedestal but (insert self-deprecating laughter here) during our last recording process I was going through a lot of hard times and there were major changes - like major changes - and some that I am still dealing with.”

He recently moved to North Vancouver from Prince George where he’s lived all his life.

“I think there’s a point where you have to decide that it’s time to get through this and move on at any cost and that’s kinda where I was at," Darby said. "So I started to write it and I didn’t even realize I’m On Fire was about all of that stuff - I thought it was just a general song I was writing - but no, it was about everything that was happening at that time and just how important it was to move out of that. So it really was my anthem for leaving and for doing better and I think moving to North Van was the end of that part of my life and so that’s what the song was really about.”

Check out The Yule Brothers new music here.