Photo Credit: Steve Gullick
“Catch Me If You Can” Featuring Nana
Single and Video Out Now
At long last, the debut album from C.Y.M., the duo comprised of Michael Greene AKA Fort Romeau and Chris Baio (Vampire Weekend, Baio), is out now. The eponymous longplayer, produced by Baio and Greene and mixed by David Wrench (Frank Ocean, blur, Jamie XX, Caribou), is available on vinyl and digitally worldwide via ADA HERE.
Also out now is C.Y.M.’s latest single and video, “Catch Me If You Can” featuring Nana, the Crenshaw-based, Ghanian-by-way-of-Germany rapper of whom Audiomack recently said, “Nana Is Los Angeles’ Next Great Storyteller… His stories balloon and exude soul. His name, which translates to ‘King’ in Akan, signals Nana’s stature in music.”
“Catch Me If You Can” was written by Baio, Greene and Nana, and is the only track on the album to feature a guest emcee. It showcases unique aspects of C.Y.M.’s multi-dimensional spectrum of sound, layering Nana’s hard-hitting rhymes atop an industrial motorik rhythm laid down by Baio on bass and Robby Sinclair on drums, and enhancing the flourishes of Greene’s melodies and Baio’s falsetto vocals.
“Catch Me If You Can” is yet another example of how C.Y.M. brilliantly blends that which makes no sense on paper, but works stunningly in the capable hands of Baio and Greene. How a number showcasing Nana’s rhyming skills fits perfectly alongside guest spots from indie darlings Day Wave and Cherry Glazerr and Lagos artists SOLIS4EVR must be heard to be understood.
The accompanying performance video for “Catch Me If You Can” — directed and filmed by creative director Tom Mull — features C.Y.M., Nana, and Garrett Ray on drums. Watch it HERE.
C.Y.M.’s eponymous full length debut is an homage of sorts to classic artist/producer-helmed albums of the turn of the century (think Moon Safari by Air and Psyence Fiction by Unkle), and is heavily informed by the duo’s encyclopedic knowledge and appreciation of a wide spectrum of genres spanning krautrock, shoegaze, indie, industrial and soul. These diverse and seemingly incongruous sonic references and influences were channeled into 10 meticulously and skillfully crafted songs that form C.Y.M.’s surprisingly cohesive first longplayer. Recorded over the course of four years in Los Angeles, London, Paris, Glasgow and Lagos, why the song titles refer to Italian cities is an unfolding mystery.
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Album art by Colin Fletcher
