The Yearning

<a href="spotify:artist:611NVXVJTiwXIQ4mtlKrp4" data-name="The Yearning">The Yearning</a> is a band conceived as a studio project led by Britain’s Joe Moore who has other projects like <a href="spotify:artist:7Gt7EEeEolWCZbcVkbZ4oS" data-name="The Perfect Kiss">The Perfect Kiss</a> or JULIE ET JOE and collaborates with artists like <a href="spotify:artist:5s6yhwwSSPsUSFcYrxNXpv" data-name="Lia Pamina">Lia Pamina</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0QDX6XPKMtHL54pzj5VG9T" data-name="Cristina Quesada">Cristina Quesada</a> or <a href="spotify:artist:5Q298hr1QbsyQaftwQfZoP" data-name="Maddie Mae">Maddie Mae</a>.
Many compare <a href="spotify:artist:611NVXVJTiwXIQ4mtlKrp4" data-name="The Yearning">The Yearning</a> to bands like <a href="spotify:artist:1C4F7PHDaEkp5ZL1rkkmrE" data-name="The School">The School</a> or <a href="spotify:artist:5gInJ5P5gQnOKPM3SUEVFt" data-name="Camera Obscura">Camera Obscura</a>, but there are differences. Their sound is lighter, closer to <a href="spotify:artist:3jVMgT4X7YeuYE4aludcmE" data-name="Phil Spector">Phil Spector</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:35y7CZMg7jbG8Q96JY7dyC" data-name="Burt Bacharach">Burt Bacharach</a> or <a href="spotify:artist:4Q82S0VzF8qlCb4PnSDurj" data-name="Brian Wilson">Brian Wilson</a>.

The Yearning first appeared in 2012 with <a href="spotify:album:46TKHNkP6OcklZ7L6bnUXJ" data-name="Jukebox Romance">Jukebox Romance</a> (an innocent, exciting, hyper-melodic album close to <a href="spotify:artist:5zaXYwewAXedKNCff45U5l" data-name="Dusty Springfield">Dusty Springfield</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0SDMI2Gkjubw3ol5p5fKtX" data-name="The Paris Sisters">The Paris Sisters</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:3oDbviiivRWhXwIE8hxkVV" data-name="The Beach Boys">The Beach Boys</a>). It was followed of <a href="spotify:album:7aRIAIbapPFcXpXRoIIcGc" data-name="Still In Love">Still In Love</a>, where Joe Moore spreads his stylistic wings with showing his incredible abilities as a composer and arranger.
<a href="spotify:album:1jQxdDPFn5AGJEIE3w2809" data-name="Dreamboats & Lemonade">Dreamboats & Lemonade</a> is passion for pop and a pure homage to <a href="spotify:artist:7x3f7c0fBanNlQwpx1255g" data-name="Françoise Hardy">Françoise Hardy</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:35y7CZMg7jbG8Q96JY7dyC" data-name="Burt Bacharach">Burt Bacharach</a> or <a href="spotify:artist:08b2PA6eFyugsWAk41eQKZ" data-name="Lesley Gore">Lesley Gore</a>. In the more melancholy <a href="spotify:album:2aFZKmk8YWNm8zorUfVnKY" data-name="Evening Souvenirs">Evening Souvenirs</a> features the Cotswold Voices choir on select tracks.
<a href="spotify:album:7HPfLDn3420zDlLteeYv11" data-name="Take Me All Over The World">Take Me All Over The World</a> arrived in 2018. It has inclinations to bossa and Brazilian breezes (echoes of <a href="spotify:artist:5rX2c1zow6hCph8PnnU3kF" data-name="Astrud Gilberto">Astrud Gilberto</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:0yFvXd36g5sNKYDi0Kkvl8" data-name="Elis Regina">Elis Regina</a> or <a href="spotify:artist:1b8kpp4DUwt1hWaxTiWQhD" data-name="Gal Costa">Gal Costa</a>).

Only When I&#39;m Dancing, the new album by the group is released in 2020 and this time it is is focused in the 70s and disco: it is <a href="spotify:artist:0LcJLqbBmaGUft1e9Mm8HV" data-name="ABBA">ABBA</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3rfgbfpPSfXY40lzRK7Syt" data-name="Barry White">Barry White</a> or <a href="spotify:artist:2H32fphWQj9hhVuCOKkchM" data-name="The Nolans">The Nolans</a>. This change of style is accompanied by a change of singer. Maddie Dobie, has been the lead vocal for so many years but now she is focused in her solo career like <a href="spotify:artist:5Q298hr1QbsyQaftwQfZoP" data-name="Maddie Mae">Maddie Mae</a> so in this new album vocals are handed by Luci Ashbourne. So a new era full of surprises begins.