London DIY mainstays unite in YAKKIE, a snarling new punk force built from serious underground pedigree. Featuring members of Dream Nails, Personal Best, Petrol Girls, and Colour Me Wednesday, the four-piece deal in grit-heavy riffs, dual-vocal bite, and politics that feel lived-in rather than slogan-led.
Debut album Kill The Cop Inside Your Head lands with tape-saturated immediacy, recorded live to capture the band’s raw edge. The title, borrowed from Augusto Boal’s concept of confronting internalised oppression, reframes punk as both external resistance and internal reckoning. It’s as personal as it is political.
The band described embracing imperfection in the studio, urgency over polish, instinct over gloss. That ethos runs throughout the record: taut, confrontational, and unafraid to be messy.
With a launch show at The Victoria in London and more new material already in motion, YAKKIE feel less like a side project and more like a necessary escalation. Direct, DIY, and defiantly loud; exactly as punk should be.
Kill The Cop Inside Your Head is in stores now.
