Yorke, Loula

Artist: Loula Yorke
P: 2025
DIN 94
LTD 500 Exemplare
Loula Yorke is a UK-based modular synthesist and educator. Debuting with YSMYSMYSM on Detroit label Junted in 2019, her career really took off after her synth-building workshop Atari Punk Girls was recognised with a coveted Oram Award (PRS/BBC Radiophonic Workshop). Since then she’s released several albums on her own label Truxalis as well as via ambient electronic specialists such as quiet details and Castles in Space. Yorke’s hypnotically looping album Volta, released in 2024, was chosen as The Quietus’ Album of the Week and Electronic Sound’s #2 Album of the Year, as well as earning acclaim from trusted tastemakers such as The Wire, Tom Ravenscroft and Mary-Anne Hobbs. Yorke has played live in churches, warehouses, and arts centres from Cafe Oto to Tabakalera. In September 2025 she supported smallpipe virtuoso Brìdghe Chaimbeul on her London and Bristol tour dates with Shahzad Ismaily, catching the ear of a whole new audience of adventurous music lovers.
Yorke has a unique style of playing her modular synthesiser instruments, pairing emotional, introspective moments with technical flair and a deep love of evolving cyclical patterns. For this, her debut DiN solo release, she has explored the world of water in all its myriad forms. The six separate tracks form a cohesive whole that lives and breathes, growing from beautiful ambient sections through to pulsing oscillations that shimmer and shine. Never staying still at any moment, the music takes on the elusive quality of that most precious of liquids to create an album immersed in Loula’s unique sound world. This new release from Yorke is another fine addition to the DiN canon, providing a showcase for her outstanding electronic music and singular musical vision.