yeule has shared their first single of 2023, 'sulky baby'

yeule has shared their first single of 2023, 'sulky baby'.

The track coincides with the news that they've signed to Ninja Tune, and have a headline tour of the UK and US coming up.

"'sulky baby' was like a 2000s alt-rock shoegaze hybrid tinted in sad satire," they explain. "I felt like I was talking to a younger version of me, stopping her from crying, looking back at the ways I betrayed and neglected that innocence from myself. I failed to protect her and I felt like I needed to go back in time and fulfill what she was starved of. So that she could return to my side. So that I can smile like a little kid again. The song gives quite vivid descriptions of a depression I felt with almost a burning passion, yet I tried to give it a light-hearted tone. I think romanticizing is not always that bad. It helps to do it sometimes when you're dealing with a repressed memory. I think it is called an advantaged delusion? Sometimes, that's the only way I can remember parts of me I don't want to remember, so that I can lay her to rest and heal. My mother used to tell me as a child, not to sulk all the time. I guess that's why sulking is so special to me."

Check it out below, and catch yeule live at the following:

OCTOBER 10 Chicago, IL @ Metro 15 New York, NY @ Webster Hall 19 Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda

DECEMBER 11 London, UK @ Outernet