The Yellow Melodies


The Yellow Melodies is an indie pop band from Murcia, in Spain.

History

-THE YELLOW MELODIES are an indiepop band from Murcia. They started making music at the end of the 90s. They have released 8 albums, several singles and EPs on different labels and their songs have been included in many compilations all around the world.
-THE YELLOW MELODIES are: Rafa Skam ; Antonio Clares ; Carlos Abrisqueta and José Ángel Hernández.
-They have played live a lot, supporting bands such as EMMA POLLOCK, THE LADYBUG TRANSISTOR or THE PRIMARY 5, and they have also played Spanish festivals such as Contempopranea, Lemon Pop, Sos 4.8, Sonorama, Easy Pop Weekend, Microsonidos, Sonorama, etc… and European festivals such as Indietracks, Wales Goes Pop, and the International Pop Overthrow in Liverpool. They have taken part on TV shows, such as TVE’s Los Conciertos de Radio 3 / La 2. They have sold their records all around the world, from Japan to Europe.
-They have some videoclips out; one of them, «Mr Sand and Mrs Sea» was awarded as the «Best Video-clip» in the Spanish Pop-Eye Awards of the independent music.
-Along 2013 they released a trilogy of cover albums, called «Fans»: 3 LPs released exclusively in colour vinyl limited editions. Twelve singles were taken out from their third album, ‘New Identities’, with rarities and excellent b-sides, that would later be collected in a compilation CD in 2014 by the Seattle indiepop label Jigsaw Records.
-In 2017, THE YELLOW MELODIES release ‘Life’, their 8th album, that features brand new own songs that enrich their musical universe. Duglas T. Stewart, once described them as a band who had “a love of POP with capital letters, with an extraordinary musical sensitivity, an authentic and charming type”.
-They come back to the music scene in 2020, after including some songs in compilation albums such as "F.A.R. out" and "A very cherry Christmas".
-THE YELLOW MELODIES release 3 successive EPs and an album all along 2020, titled ‘Sunshine Pop’, a remarkable collection of vital songs, mainly sung in Spanish, with bright arrangements and lovely harmonies very close to perfection. Brilliant melodies, a hedonistic attitude and above all, a lot of pop, charmingly sophisticated pop. And that's not all, as this year there will also be a release of a 7" vinyl with three songs on the Greek label Old Bad Habits.
-THE YELLOW MELODIES are essentially a group of songs, regardless of its shape or form, whether it’s indie pop, psych pop, orchestral pop, power pop, mod or beat, its first and foremost pure POP! They play music from the heart, with true passion and with style and flair.

Line-up

Albums