Saturday May 16

YOT CLUB

ZZZAHARA

Doors at 8:00

SIMPLETON, the third album from multi-platinum indie-rock singer/songwriter YOT CLUB, dismantles the utopian view of the American suburbs, treating finely manicured life as a mirage. Across its 13 tracks, the LP (released via Amuse) wrestles with how gated neighborhoods, curated feeds, and predictable routines can blur, and even erase, empathy and responsibility, creating a walled-off world where difficult questions and harsh realities are easy to ignore.

“There are whole communities built to pretend the bad shit in life doesn’t exist,” Ryan Kaiser says. “It's a real form of privilege to be able to not have to care about any of this stuff – to just move into an HOA neighborhood where you can curate your feed and live in your own bubble.”

Raised outside Jackson, MS, in what he calls a “white-flight neighborhood,” Kaiser grew up inside the very kind of bubble Simpleton scrutinizes, a place where physical separation mirrored both informational and emotional distance from the world beyond it. In 2019, he started Yot Club in his college dorm room, crafting a lo-fi, classically cool indie rock sound grounded under a dreamlike haze. Two years later, his breakthrough single “YKWIM?” quickly reached viral status on TikTok (today, it’s been streamed more than 1 billion times) and has since taken him around the world as a festival mainstay at spots like Treefort, Kilby Block Party and Pitchfork Paris.