The Yagas
The Crying Room

With a smoldering atmospheric goth alt/metal sound, The Yagas get everything right in their debut single, The Crying Room’.

Distant ghostly wailing ushers in the intro, a warm guitar line joined by haunting synth and a slow burn drum beat. Then we get a verse with a melodic vocal with smartly rendered occasionaly harmonies. After this, a second verse builds up to the chugging metal, double-bass drum licks, and wails of the harder section of the song. Reflecting the whole song in one piece is the outro, and then we’re done.

The non traditional arrangement is just about perfect. They’ve avoided the compressed over-dialled heaviness that sucks all the dynamic from a song and focussed on the vibe. That makes the song rich and fascinating from start to end.

The video is ultra-wide-screen and an exact match for the song’s feels. Vera Farmiga is obviously excellent on camera and the location choices are on point.

The Crying Room’ is about release and relief. It’s about crying your heart clean. It’s a song that was filmed during and in the aftermath of an eclipse, and is about the eclipse of our soul. Eclipses have potent effects on our psychology. They are energetic portals that trigger epiphanies and outpouring of emotion. They help us shift. Humans are capable of getting stuck in our shadows from time to time. It’s in this balancing of the shadow and light, one literally eclipsing the other, that we have an opportunity to look deep into our hearts and what is going on internally and bring that into the light, no matter how dark it is.

Vera Farmiga

We should be getting more music from The Yagas in 2025. Can’t wait!

The Crying Room Video

Watche The Yagas – ‘The Crying Room’.

The Crying Room Lyrics

I wanna show you my secret place
Where I can show my real face
This mask is hard to keep glued down
I need to let the curtains down
The edges peel the crystal shows
It looks undone from the front row

Coming to the crying room
I never share my little doom
Once you see you need to stay
Can’t let my secrets see the day
Coming to the crying room
Crying room

Written by Fenton on 19th November 2024

Steve Fenton writes in our music, words, and culture categories. He was Editor in Chief for The Mag and covered live music for DV8 Magazine and Spill Magazine. He was often found in venues throughout the UK alongside ace-photographer, Mark Holloway. Steve is also a technical writer and programmer and writes gothic fiction. Steve studied Psychology at OSC, and Anarchy in the UK: A History of Punk from 1976-1978 at the University of Reading.

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