YACHT (US)

This American duo — Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans — expands to a quartet at live performances. The name of the band is purportedly short for Young American Challenging High Technology, which does in fact correspond with their sound: frenetic, dancy electronic music with a slight psychedelic twist. No wonder YACHT was snatched up by the New York label DFA (co-owned by James Murphy of the late LCD Soundsystem), who released the band’s latest album, See Mystery Lights, and is set to come out with their next, Shangri-La, this June. Jona used to dance and serve up PowerPoint presentations at live shows; who knows what YACHT is up to these days? We can’t wait to find out.