TRACKLIST
A1. Nobody’s Clown
A2. Frozen In Time
A3. Something Happened
A4. I Can’t Feel
A5. Brown Boy
B1. Last Request
B2. I Want You To Stay
B3. But You Did
B4. Name On Me
B5. Love Is A Game For Fools
DESCRIPTION
Debut album from Los Angeles duo Los Yesterdays - Sweet Soul music meets Mexican Folklorico
Los Yesterdays are a Chicano soul band from Los Angeles based around the creative collabora- tion between Gabriel Rowland and Victor Benavides. They began working together when Row- land - a drummer by trade, then creaky and exhausted from waking up at dawn to work con- struction - decided to channel those struggles into song. He contacted Benavides, a former bandmate of Rowland’s deceased brother, to record the soul ballads that Southland Chicanos call “oldies.”
Los Yesterdays filter love-struck R&B crooning through guitar-strumming Mexican balladeering; the result is something that sounds like the Los Angeles of yesterday and today - the indelible, immovable Los Angeles of cruising Whittier Boulevard, of cold drinks on the porch on blazing summer nights, of watching a blue-orange toxic sunset and wondering if they are thinking about you. Los Angeles changes; Los Angeles stays the same. Los Yesterdays have changed, out- grown their childhood barrios and the bands of their early 20s and their private garage hermitude; Los Yesterdays are Frozen In Time.
"Sweet soul music - also known as lowrider oldies on the West Coast, rolas and souldies - are typically early 60s-style tunes that emphasize vocal harmonies. Most songs are slow-to-midtempo, many are ballads, and the sub-genre is generally stripped down compared to the highly produced Motown hits of the time....there is a generations-long appreciation for sweet soul music among California’s Latino communities. Eastern
Los Angeles teens.... helped foster a love of sweet soul in the early 60s by covering soulful ballads by artists like James Brown... Those sounds....were kept alive by record collectors and people
who spent evenings cruising along East Los boulevards." - BILLBOARD