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Fresh off of their 2020 offering Adult Themes, El Michels Affair is back with a new full-length . Titled Yeti Season, this newest album has everything we've come to expect from EMA's patented cinematic style of instrumental soul music. Where Adult Themes inspired a soundtrack to an imaginary film, Yeti Season brings us to a different place in time-with new inspirations. Taken with Turkish-styled funk and an almost Mumbai-esque take on soul, El Michels Affair offers us a different kind of drama and imagination with Yeti Season. If you've been following along, this shouldn't be viewed as too far a departure for El Michels Affair. The first single off of Yeti Season showed their hand back in 2018. A double-sided banger, that brought the musical textures to the fore that dominate this record. The first song, titled InchUnathi,Inch is fully realized with the beautifully haunting-yet-hopeful vocals of Piya Malik, formerly of 79.5. Singing in Hindi, Piya's ethereal voice is telling us to work and strive together toward progress. Even if you don't understand her language, you can still hear the urgency of purpose, creating a lasting vibe that sits on top of it all. Leon Michels explains that Piya had a vital influence on this record InchWhen Piya started singing in Hindi, she had a different voice, a different tone. I knew we had to do something together.Inch And so Piya appears on three other songs on Yeti Season InchZaharila,Inch InchMurkit Gem,Inch and InchDhuaan.Inch Each providing particular signatures to the album. InchZaharilaInch is a building and changing love song punctuated by blaring trumpets, driving drums, and Piya's pleading lyrics. While the more upbeat InchMurkit GemInch opens with a fuzzed out, Wu-Tang-esque baseline that buoys Piya's stylings. The psychedelic guitar and Piya's changing tones and textures singing about an all-consuming love are what pus
