Ridegwood, Queens duo Yo Kinky met at the start of 2020, bonding over shared musical interests, and immediately started working on songs together. Over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, Laura Wight and Tom Unish self-produced and recorded their self-titled debut EP. This collection of songs addresses trust, communication, love, loneliness, freedom, identity, and expectation. The two-piece incorporates drum machines and buzzing, dissonant, squelching keyboards with guitars that alternately shimmer and shake with reverb and delay. Recorded and mixed by Unish, Wight handled the lyrics while Unish performed the instrumentation. Her bright vocals are delivered with a conversational precision that calls to mind acts like X, Sleaford Mods, and Blondie.

JC got a chance to catch up with Laura and Tom to chat about starting a band during a pandemic, what it will be like when they can finally get out to play some live shows, and where they think the music industry is headed. All this and much more on this week’s episode of theFIVE10 Podcast!