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The ten songs on Yawn, Bill Ryder-Jones fourth studio album, are everyday stories about situations we all fall from and into, out of and back up against the wall again ?and they are sung to us, up close, by a voice still in hock to a few uncomfortable truths. The album was recorded and produced entirely by Bill himself, with a little help from friends including guest vocals from The Orielles and Our Girl. Mixing was done by Craig Silvey (Portishead, The Horrors, Arcade Fire). Yawn is a buckle-up and knuckle-down listen that rewards the listeners? attention with motifs and melodies that play hide and seek but never fail to deliver on those between-the-lines verities. This musical belief of delayed gratification is something Bill learnt from classical music as a child, from Elgar and Debussy in particular ? and over the long hall of his short life, you can hear these riches being polished on Yawn. Most of the 10 songs clock-in over the 5 minute mark and this wide-angle lens affords us time to interpret and translate meaning ? or just to revel in it.