The sunny, honeyed “Feather Light” is a mixture of joy and elation, love and loss, written while SCOTT YODER was working on a weed farm and reading Broken Wings by Lebanese-American poet Kahlil Gibran.
The novella follows a man as he meets and loses his first love — something Yoder, and any of us, can relate to. “I was swept up by his way with words,” he says. “And it felt good to reinterpret some of that through music.”
SCOTT YODER will release “Feather Light” on July 18th, 2025.
Despite his somewhat flamboyant image — dandyish and otherworldly in equal measure — SCOTT YODER can be a rather distant person. Self-contained. Introspective. Cerebral. So it’s only fitting that he wrote his first solo album, Lover, Let Me In(out September 5th, 2025), well, solo — tucked away in his tiny house in Seattle with only a pack of feral cats for company.
A native of Vashon Island, Washington, Yoder started making music after his dad bought him a garage sale guitar on his 14th birthday — raised on a steady diet of Marilyn Manson, NIN, and of course, Nirvana. From that moment on, bands became his life, starting with the psych-rock outfit the Pharmacy, which saw Yoder and his friends touring with the Moldy Peaches, traversing Europe, and playing fests like SXSW over the course of their 10-year run.
“Those guys were like brothers to me,” Yoder says. After the group disbanded — they’d simply run their course — Yoder became a folky balladeer, traveling the country with a harmonica and 12-string on buses and trains, before trading traditional Seattle denim and plaid for a painted face and frills. The campy new look was a nod to the films of Ken Russell, as well as a turn toward a more theatrical sound — more T-Rex than troubadour.
Yoder started writing Lover, Let Me In in 2021 with an unplugged electric guitar and yellow legal pad, recording on his laptop in his tiny loft bedroom. “It’s about feeling like there’s a barrier between you and someone you care about, and, no matter what you do, no matter how many different ways you try to look at it, no matter either of your good intentions, you just can’t break down that barrier,” he says.
Music that, while created solo, is sure to reverberate through anyone who has felt alone — yearning to be let in.
| On this recording: |
| Drums – Scott Yoder |
| Percussion – Scott Yoder |
| Bass – Scott Yoder |
| Guitar – Scott Yoder |
| Keyboards – Scott Yoder |
| Programming – Scott Yoder |
| Synth – Scott Yoder |
| Vocals – Scott Yoder |
| Produced by Scott Yoder |
| Vocals recorded by Nicholas Wilbur at Anacortes Unknown |
| Mixed and Mastered by Mell Dettmer |
Visit SCOTT YODER online:
Website: https://www.scottmatthewyoder.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scottycooldude
Facebook: http://facebook.com/scottyodermusic
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@scottycooldude
Bandcamp: https://scottyoder.bandcamp.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scottyoder
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/scott-yoder/561995874
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7IiH41ymNM437kLg3tUryC?si=SRpx9H2-RGCvLRnNiUnxeA
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