YOUBET SHARE NEW SINGLE “RECEIVE”

Today, New York band youbet have shared “Receive,” the second single from their highly anticipated new self-titled album, due out May 1st via Hardly Art. “Receive” finds lead singer Nick Llobet carving away at generational conflict, tethering propulsive bursts of guitar reverie with raw emotional vigor. "I wrote this chorus I really connected with years ago and struggled ever since to find the right song to put it in,” they share. “Receive is my third attempt. There are a few disparate themes here: self deprecation, exploitation, family survival, anger. “
 
Read the band’s recent profile in Rolling Stone, where they discuss their work as educators and their newly collaborative approach with Simon Vozick-Levinson. Alongside today’s single, the band have announced an East Coast headline tour, along with dates supporting Hudson Freeman.
 
Originally formed as a solo project helmed by Llobet, youbet sees the project evolve into a duo, with Micah Prussack and Llobet proudly acting as both explorer and guide, sharing three-dimensional musical sculptures so confidently and esoterically their own that they couldn’t have been released under any other name but youbet.
 
Created in motion and shaped between long stretches of touring, the album reflects a moment of ecstatic possibility and grit. Both sharpened and expansive, youbet grows from the confines of home recording and “bedroom pop” into something sturdier, louder, and unmistakably their own. For their part, Llobet sees the resulting album as a statement of that hard work and the opening of a new chapter. “It’s the beginning of a new era for youbet,” they say. “The band started as a sort of bedroom project for myself, but it has transformed into something expansive since working with Micah. It’s like we’re running a family business.”

youbet's self-titled album is now available for preorder from Hardly Art HERE.
 
youbet announced the record last month with lead single and album opener “Ground Kiss,” a late-night existential query written after the dissolution of an 11-year relationship. “The song represents an endless search for that something and the rebuilding that goes along with trial and failure,” shares principal songwriter Nick Llobet, the song uniting the spectrum between clouds of plucked Big Thief-esque glow and bursts of distorted frustration, flexing the nuanced production of longtime collaborator Katie Von Schleicher.
 
“I myself am a constant student of life, of creating,” Llobet says. “I see people's creative anxieties because I have lived them. It’s very therapeutic because I can tell that I'm giving people strong advice based on all my failures.”
When Llobet relocated to New York from Denver in 2013, they had started forging connections in the local scene, but it wasn’t until meeting Prussack that they discovered a different level of musical connection. When the duo started playing together, they quickly realized their uniquely shared musical language and eagerness to learn from everything, connecting over a vast array of musical influence and their own practice of teaching.
youbet demonstrates Llobet and Prussack’s ability to weave beguiling musical and lyrical expression, pushing and pulling at the resulting mesh. Developing that kind of finely tuned fusion between complex musicality and deeply felt emotion required more than hoping inspiration would strike. Instead, the process of creating youbet involved countless hours of precise engineering, meticulous craft, and gritty dedication. “Throughout the album, there’s unique interplay and variation that you can only get from a lot of hard work together,” says Prussack.
Ahead of the album’s release, the band will tour North America alongside Remember Sports. Tickets on-sale now.
 

Tour Dates:
Tickets
April 1st - Washington, DC @ Pearl Street Warehouse ^
April 2nd - Richmond, VA @ The Camel ^
April 3rd - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle - Back Room ^
April 4th - Columbia, SC @ New Brookland Tavern ^
April 6th - Atlanta, GA @ Aisle 5 ^
April 7th - Birmingham, AL @ Saturn ^
April 9th - Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves ^
April 10th - Austin, TX @ 29th Street Ballroom ^
April 13th - Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress ^
April 15th - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar ^
April 16th - Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy + Harriet's ^
April 17th - Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room ^
April 18th - San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop ^
April 20th - Reno, NV @ Holland Project ^
April 23rd - Portland, OR @ High Limit Room ^
April 24th - Vancouver, BC @ Wise Hall ^
April 25th - Seattle, WA @ The Vera Project ^
April 27th - Boise, ID @ Shrine Social Club Basement ^
April 28th - Salt Lake City, UT @ Hypha House ^
April 29th - Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive ^
May 1st - Omaha, NE @ Reverb Lounge ^
May 29th - Brattleboro, VT @ The Stone Church *
May 30th - Asbury Park, NJ @ The Wonder Bar *
May 31st - Amagansett, NY @ The Stephen Talkhouse *
June 2nd - Allentown, PA Arrow @ Archer Music Hall *
June 3rd - Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar *
June 4th - Richmond, VA @ The Camel *
July 9th - Ridgewood, NY @ TV Eye
July 10th - Cambridge, MA @ The Lilypad
July 11th - Montréal, QC @ Turbo Haüs
July 12th - Toronto, ON @ The Baby G
July 14th - Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe
July 15th - Chicago, IL @ Schubas
July 17th - Washington, DC @ Pie Shop
July 18th - Philadelphia, PA @ Ortlieb's Lounge
 
^ w/ Remember Sports
* w/ Hudson Freeman & lots of hands