yawn is an electro-dream-pop project that creates a gorgeously intimate sonic world, filled with lushly layered synths and warm vocals. The music is lovingly woven together by the complex and joyously self-deprecating Julia McDougall. yawn is at the same time a captivating one-woman show and a cathartic peek into someone else’s tear-stained diary that will make you wistfully sway on the dance floor with your best friend.

The Vancouver songwriter shares the first single from an upcoming release, produced by Jo Hirabayashi (Jo Passed). “Broken Baby” is a song that was born in the early days of COVID, during a summer of forest fires and smoky skies that laid like a thick blanket over the Pacific Northwest. “It’s a song about personal and collective anguish; the story follows a woman who imagined a different life for herself, but instead spends her weekends at the local bar in the small town she never left, lamenting to strangers about what could have been,” explains McDougall. “The song parallels the deeply personal story with the crippling, omnipresent climate anxiety we feel collectively. It grapples with the fact that our physical world has shifted so rapidly into an urgent crisis that’s well beyond our control, and explores how we try to make sense of moving forward while acknowledging tremendous loss.” yawn asks: how can we not feel broken in a world that keeps breaking us over and over again?