I Met a Yeti - Opulence track review
I Met a Yeti are set to drop “Opulence” featuring pulses. (who may have been covered here before) the first single from a currently untitled EP on June 25th. (The Friday after this post) I’m here to tell you about the track, but first, who is IMAY?
IMAY is a five-piece progressive post-hardcore band from Orlando, FL. They’ve already made their fair share of waves in the scene sharing the stage with Adventurer, Strawberry Girls and more and have accumulated 800K+ Spotify streams. The band had this to say about the track:
“Opulence is a song based on a quote from YouTuber Contrapoints, “It's not that I'm ashamed of what I did, it's not that I'm ashamed of how I feel, it's that I'm ashamed of who and what I am.” Opulence seeks to personify this sensation of pure distilled shame.
We began writing Opulence in Sacramento, California while staying in a motel for a couple of nights between tour dates. Opulence quickly evolved into the foundation for the upcoming EP. In many ways, it defined the sound we aimed for while writing the rest of the album. We recorded this song with Matt Goings of Killian Studios, who also engineered/produced/mixed, and mastered Camp Yeti. (the band’s first release) We also worked with Kyle Hoffer for the first time on this song, having him track Daisy’s vocals. Caleb Taylor and Matt Burridge of Pulses. lent their voices to this track, singing and screaming lyrics written by their drummer Kevin Taylor.”
The track itself kicks in with some nice vocals backed up by beautiful harmonies, a simple guitar pattern which then kicks into a really lively rhythm section that stays sturdy into the first verse. From there we’re hit with a rather long instrumental break that seems to draw influence from the more progressive sides of post-hardcore and I have to compliment the bass here especially. If it made you want to move in the intro it only goes up in this bit. The second verse doesn’t add much new however this is where the lyricism really starts to hit hard. I don’t want to show the band’s whole hand here but;
“Abiding shortsightedness I have been a fool to linger on this body, how could I ever escape?”
Really makes you feel the song's message of personifying pure distilled shame and sort of giving into its inevitable grip. This next section just feels so much livelier, so much more positive in it’s vocal harmony and even it’s lyricism to a degree. There is a breakdown after this section that has a simple enough opening with some screamed lines but the real shining gem in it is this instrumental break. It almost serves as its own mosh call with the way it just sounds so jumpy and spiraling. That of course isn’t to discount the vocals here as they grow deeper and more aggressive when they kick back in, which, live I can picture translating incredibly. Now we arrive at the pulses. feature that to be honest exemplifies everything, to me, that a feature in this genre should. It takes the energies of both projects and combines them in a new and refreshing way even just two minutes into a track. For a quarter of a minute this sounds like a pulses. cut with it’s party-mosh like riffing and hip hop inspired vocals then turns into a pulses.-IMAY blend for the rest of the feature. Plus as always pulses. bringing the lyrical heat. That “float like a butterfly, sting like a bullet” line? Has me smile wide time after time already. There is a pretty powerful vocal part here with more of a slow burning instrumental backing it up. Last bit of lyrics I’ll give away but it's only to make a comment on a production direction. There is a line that says;
“Do you live to feel the way the pill slides down your throat”
However even with the lyrics in front of me it sounds like “love to feel.” If intentional, that is a really interesting dichotomy that I feel adds a very cool layer to the experience. The song’s outro has a more electronic approach with some mashed up vocals and I think gives a fine send off that I can only hope will have an even grander pay off in the full project.
All in all, Opulence has made me very much look forward to this upcoming release and definitely demonstrates a unique personality in the DIY post-hardcore scene. Look forward to the release this Friday, June 25th, and follow IMAY on all social media outlets linked below.
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