Four-piece indie rock band Into Yesterday performed at King Tut’s on August 25.
The Edinburgh-based band is formed of drummer Euan Scott, guitarist Matthew Burns, bassist Andrew Dobbie, and lead singer Rachael Diver.
After an impressive set, Into Yesterday spoke to Brig about being a band and what they have in store for the future.
“It’s the best we have been as a whole,” Rachael told Brig. “Everyone was feeling each other.”
The band told Brig they were once a three-piece. However, this all changed after Rachel joined in October last year.
Since then, they have released two songs: Midnight and Take it all.
What are the meanings behind these two tracks?
Bassist Andy explains that he is the main songwriter of the group and has worked hard on these two tracks alongside guitarist Matthew.
He said, “Midnight is about after you get out of a relationship and feel lost without the other person, so you just try to find loads of things to replace it with.”
Take it all is the B-side records and the songs go hand in hand with exploring when you find someone or something else but then rely on that too much and you don’t deal with any of those problems.
The band explained that a lot of their instrumentation is based on old pop punk bands such as Blink 182 and Green Day as well as newer bands like Wolf Alice.
Lead vocalist Rachael said: “I didn’t really know Wolf Alice songs until I met these three, then we stuck with those types of vibes.”
So what’s next?
After the first releases back in April, the band revealed to Brig that they will be releasing four more tracks before the end of the year.
Andrew told Brig: “The next single is called Method Acting which will have two tracks on it.”
Guitarist Matthew wrote the song which explores themes of toxic relationships:
“There’s a lot of imagery about relationships where one person is very controlling, imagery of someone watching you with a camera and they are directing your life.
“It’s a bit of a darker one for us, it’s different to a lot of the stuff we do.”
Eyes All Over You is the B-side track on the single and was written by Rachel and Andrew
“It’s finding out that your boyfriend cheated on you. Eyes all over you are concerning the other girls’ eyes all over him,” says Rachel.
Into Yesterday are hoping to release new music for us all in September as well as supporting The Manatees at Sneaky Pete’s in Edinburgh.
We hope to see many more of these guys very soon.
Feature image credit: Carly McKim
Music Editor of Brig Newspaper. 4th year film, media and journalism student.
