Yonaka: "The album's going to be next year"

You don't want to get in Yonaka's way.

The band have only released a handful of songs, but they're already glimpses into a world of fire, flare and wicked grins. There's the crouched tiger of ‘Ignorance', all warped builds and sudden throw downs, the open armed warning of ‘Drongo' and the no-apologies, zero-fucks of ‘Wouldn't Want To Be Ya'. Alongside the live promise of ‘All In My Head' and the bubbling ‘Run', they're a band who control chaos.

"It's just all of our different influences mixed together," starts Theresa. "We started writing and this style just sorta started happening," she shrugs. "It works well for us." Rather than clear definitions and obvious nods to the right, Yonaka are subtle in their inspirations. Taking feelings and flavour rather than shape or sound, their music is perfectly weighted without being overcrowded. There's a lot to get your teeth into. "There's a lot going on, but there's still a lot of space," explains George.

Formed two and a half years ago against the rainbow backdrop that is Brighton, the band have slowly built a connection and a back catalogue. Now they're getting primed to release both. "We're a small band, and ‘Drongo' and ‘Ignorance' built slowly. This might not sound like a lot to you or other people but when we released ‘Wouldn't Want To Be Ya', we were getting 5000 plays a day which was nuts for us."