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• FOCUS ON: The Dreadful Yawns

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• Label: Bomp >>
• Genre: Rock

With a sound echoing the BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD, the BYRDS, MIKE SPENCE, and FAIRPORT CONVENTION, to name just a few, the DREADFUL YAWNS formed in 1999 in Cleveland, and spent a few years writing songs and playing in local bars and clubs.

Their debut album "Early" was released by Undertow Records in late 2003, and in 2004 they released a follow-up, the "Pretend EP". It was the year when they got in touch with GREG SHAW who signed them to Bomp.

Since their beginnings, the DREADFUL YAWNS has evolved into a sort of indie-rock version of the BYRDS, boasting multiple songwriters and vocalists, juxtaposing bright electric 12-string with country Telecaster, snarling harmonica with gentle acoustic bass, thunderous drumming with hushed banjo, and in the process shaping a sound that is entirely their own.