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Yummm Releases New Album “Sillyputty” and Shares “A Little Bit” Video

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2 days ago

November 13, 2026

Matty Bedrosian of Yummm with his guitar

Matty Bedrosian’s Yummm shapeshifts from lo-fi bedroom pop to guitar-driven alt-rock on “Sillyputty,” out today — a mostly solo record written, produced and mixed by Bedrosian himself, landing with a homemade video for “A Little Bit.”

RIYL: Nilüfer Yanya, Duster, Alex G, DIIV

“Whereas ‘Plug’ was a hard-slapping, propulsive pop-rock track that reminded me of Bedrosian’s work on [From Indian Lakes’] Head Void (or Oso Oso riding a raging current), ‘Yarrow’ shows off a smoldering side of the Yummm aesthetic, infusing subtle electronic touches into an understated rock ballad with notes of DIIV and Alex G at their most stripped-down.” – Stereogum on the first two Sillyputty singles “Plug” + “Yarrow”

Yummm celebrates the release of the new album Sillyputty, out today, November 13th. The brainchild of Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist, producer, and songwriter Matty Bedrosian, Yummm’s early singles have already garnered attention in advance of the full-length’s release, with Stereogum praising the ” kickass lead single ” “Plug”, and writing that the song “Yarrow” exhibits “a smoldering side of Yummm’s aesthetic.” Today in tandem with the album release, Yummm is sharing a music video for the latest single “A Little Bit”.

“There’s a line from ‘A Little Bit’ – getting dragged into the tide, just staring at the sky, just here for the ride – that always triggered a visual in my mind, one of me getting dragged around my day to day life,” shares Bedrosian when speaking about the inspiration for the song’s music video. “So with a free afternoon, a few friends, some lights from a hardware store, and an edit from my neighbor Victor, we brought that visual to life. It was shot primarily in brilliant iPhone HDR (whoops), with additional footage from a Kodak Charmera.”

Yummm’s Matty Bedrosian is known for his work with artists including From Indian Lakes, CASANDRA, and others. His new LP Sillyputty shapeshifts through different genres vacillating between lo-fi bedroom pop, guitar driven alt-rock, and meditative slowcore. Music akin to artists including Alex G, Nilüfer Yanya, Spirit of the Beehive, DIIV, and Duster.

Bedrosian grew up moving around central and coastal California on account of his mother’s free spirited nature. It’s a wanderlust that he’d inherit and adhere to after moving out on his own. His life to date has taken him to many different places, and led to the odd jobs that made his nomadic nature possible. Whether it be growing pineapples on an organic farm in Hawaii, selling flowers or delivering coffee by bicycle in the Bay Area, bartending in a fine dining restaurant in Minneapolis or touring around the country with friends and collaborators, he’s rarely stayed put in one place for very long. “It was very alluring for me to keep starting over, and has been a theme in my life in many other ways” shares Bedrosian. “I would see opportunities to explore different places and parts of myself, and didn’t hesitate to make those leaps.”

Even though he never stayed in one place for long, Bedrosian was constantly making music. He first started playing around age 12 after being gifted an electric guitar for his birthday, one with built in speakers he’d seen at Costco and become obsessed with. He learned songs by his favorites including Papa Roach, Creed, Linkin Park and Third Eye Blind, cutting his teeth as a performer by playing for his younger brothers at home, and then in his church’s live band before forming a Metalcore group with friends. “Eventually I stopped going to church and started to unearth big, angsty feelings about existence,” he shares. “I still have some of those feelings to this day, and you can find them in my lyrics.”

Lately though, Bedrosian has found himself feeling more settled after landing back in his home state. “I ended up in LA after a long time avoiding it. It’s the obvious place for a musician to go in California,” he says, which undoubtedly felt a little too on the nose for someone who had made it a habit to challenge themselves with new and unfamiliar places and situations. “As I grow older I become less impressionable and more curious to find out what it really feels like to experience something for myself – to not let people’s prejudices overly inform me,” he says. “And I love that LA is made up of every type of person, activity and artform; good, bad, ugly, inspiring.”

That sense of perspective and growth shows up in Sillyputty as well, a record Bedrosian sees as a reembracing of his youthful love of rock. “I grew up listening to butt rock, nu-metal, Christian rock, and screamo, so it took a long time to make peace with the genre – and the fact that I genuinely enjoy rocking out. There was just a lot of baggage there, and it feels pretty unpacked these days.” His ever growing production knowledge gleaned from working with artists across genre persuasions, and a more permanent home studio set up also allowed Bedrosian to work through his own creative hangups. “There are so many ways to approach rock music interestingly and authentically, now that home recording is mainstream,” he notes, “so I had the freedom to experiment, explore, sing quiet, sing loud, feel my feels, and do it all to distorted guitars.”

Sillyputty is almost entirely a solo affair, written, produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Bedrosian himself, with guest vocals from Lauren Anderson (aka Idle Empress) on “Hog Heaven”, “Plug”, and “Go There”, and from CASANDRA on “Juggling”. The album’s cover art is a painting called “Un hilo enredado” (“A tangled thread”) by Ruth de la Cruz — a friend Bedrosian met while they worked together at a restaurant in Highland Park.

Sillyputty is out November 13th, 2026.

EMPATH, Built From Volbeat, Rising And Anti-Ritual Members, Drop Their Self-Titled Debut Album

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17 hours ago

November 14, 2026

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EMPATH's four members in a black and white portrait against a dark background

Copenhagen has a new heavy rock band with serious pedigree. EMPATH, formed by members of Volbeat, Rising and Anti-Ritual, have released their self-titled debut album today, November 13th, on Indisciplinarian — a dark and dreamy take on heavy rock built on atmosphere, melody and crushing dynamics.

EMPATH is the sound of a new, dark and dreamy heavy rock band from Copenhagen, Denmark — one that revolves around atmosphere, presence and empathy. The constellation may be new, but the four members carry solid experience from bands such as Volbeat, Rising and Anti-Ritual.

In a digital and efficiency-driven age, where humanity is increasingly giving way to mechanical coldness, EMPATH — as the name suggests — is about presence, empathy and humanity. This ethos runs like a common thread through the band’s self-titled debut album, released today, November 13th, 2026, on LP, CD, cassette and digital formats via Indisciplinarian.

Across nine songs, EMPATH blends elements of progressive metal, doom, sludge and post-rock into a sound that is as dreamy and melodic as it is heavy and riff-driven. The music was recorded live with producer Lasse Ballade (Halshug, Slægt, Eyes) at Ballade Studios in Copenhagen, with vocals tracked at Grapehouse Studios by Morten Grønnegaard. Ballade also handled mix and mastering, while the artwork was created by illustrator Jon Gotlev (Nohr).

The album was first introduced by the single “Waves,” followed by “Vessel,” both pointing toward the band’s balance of melodic clarity and dense, riff-driven weight. EMPATH plays its debut show on December 11th at Hotel Cecil in Copenhagen.

EMPATH Track Listing

1. In Absence
2. Waves
3. Vessel
4. In Formation
5. In Bloom
6. In Thought
7. In Dissent
8. In Memory
9. In Return

Before forming EMPATH, guitarist/vocalist Morten Grønnegaard played with Volbeat on the albums Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies and Seal the Deal & Let’s Boogie. Bassist Christian Qvortrup played in the epic doom metal band Rising, while drummer Jakob Krogholt toured and recorded with Anti-Ritual.