Yacht Club - Ocean View Unit, 2012 - 2015
£7.00 - £21.99
Yacht Club - Ocean View Unit, 2012 - 2015
£7.00 - £21.99
PRE-ORDER. RELEASED JUNE 12TH 2026
Ocean View Unit, 2012 - 2015. The long awaited debut by Yacht Club.
A classic 80s inspired synth-pop record from the mercurial Ben Cook (singer in the legendary hardcore punk band No Warning and guitarist in the equally legendary hardcore punk band Fucked Up. And for almost twenty years now, he has been making eclectic guitar pop music under the names Young Governor, Young Guv, and—currently—GUV) & James Matthew VII (No Warning, Night Mover).
In 2008, lifelong friends Ben & Matty were living in Toronto & L.A, where Matty was exposed to Midnight Star, Klymaxx, Shalamar and SOLAR records on LA Radio:
“I started buying funk 12"s at Amoeba for $1 of all these bands, alongside Prince, Andre Cymone, The TIme. Basically anything Minneapolis funk related and all the sorta 80s pop funk bands that adapted that style. Ready for the World, Jermaine Stewart, Jody Watley, which than led me down a rabbit hole to the website beatelectric.com"
It was just me being musically obsessed and discovering something new. Ben and I were already into New Wave going back to our Hardcore days in the early 2000s; we would play New Order, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys in the van on tour.
I moved back to Toronto, where we started writing this new kind of music for us, and simultaneously started learning DAW's Logic and Ableton. We would get together a few times a week and make instrumentals completely innocently and primitively on these new DAW's,
Ben would write all lyrics and melodies himself, it was the beginning of us both becoming producers and self-sufficiently recording music. We had a hookup thanks to Steve Chahley at this incredible studio, which is why everything came out super HIFI. We were learning a lot along the way about how to work on a real mixing board:”
This record is comprised of a selection of songs from a series of outstanding singles an EPs released between 2012 & 2015, which would have undoubtedly made the debut Yacht Club long player in 2016, if not for timing and circumstance.