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Yola Announces New Album ‘Stand For Myself’ & Shares Single Apr 22, 2021 Advertisement Acclaimed singer-songwriter Yola will release a new album entitled Stand For Myself via Easy Eye Sound on July 30. Yola previewed her sophomore full-length LP by sharing its lead single, “Diamond Studded Shoes,” along with a video for the track. The 12-track album was produced by Dan Auerbach who also helmed 2019’s Walk Through Fire. Yola recorded Stand For Myself, described as “a sonic shif...

“The video is in part inspired by the Truman Show and is about being trapped in a false construct,” Yola said in a release. “It is supposedly perfect, but youre trapped in a life that wasn’t meant for you. I wanted to convey the feeling that everything you know to be true is not quite working the way it’s supposed to. The island at the end is a paradigm of mental conditioning, we are all trapped on an island of our own thinking, until we change it.”  The song tap...

Nashville Tennessean Yola, a Grammy-nominated artist self-described as the British "queen of country soul," releases her anticipated sophomore album "Stand For Myself" this July.  The record finds Yola returning to producer and Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach at Easy Eye Sound in Nashville, the same room where she delivered her 2019 breakthrough debut "Walk Through Fire."  "Stand For Myself" drops July 30 via Auerbachs label Easy Eye Sound.   Yola, born Yolanda Quartey, gave listeners a ta...