Yellow Days

Yellow Days serves as the stage name for British artist George van den Broek, whose signature involves throaty, yearning vocals layered over his dreamy indie soul-pop sound. Early independent tracks from his teenage period led to wider notice with the 2017 album Is Everything Okay in Your World?, after which he relocated to Los Angeles and issued A Day in a Yellow Beat in 2020. The following two years brought a pandemic-themed trilogy of EPs—Slow Dance & Romance, Apple Pie, and Inner Peace—rooted in psychedelic soul.

Born in Manchester, England, and raised in Haselmere, van den Broek received his first guitar during the Christmas season at age 11 and later drew from Ray Charles, Mac DeMarco, and Thundercat when he issued standalone singles as a teenager beginning in late 2015. His initial EP, Harmless Melodies, reached listeners in November 2016. Additional periodic singles surfaced throughout 2017, several of which formed the track list for his debut full-length, Is Everything Okay in Your World?, released that October and containing a guest appearance by hip-hop artist Rejjie Snow. Early in 2018 the track “Gap in the Clouds,” originally from his debut EP, gained wider exposure through its placement in the trailer for the second season of Donald Glover’s series Atlanta. That April he released the single “The Way Things Change,” followed by a short run of quickly sold-out U.S. club dates and a subsequent European tour leg. The sophomore album A Day in a Yellow Beat arrived in 2020, having been written and recorded mainly in Los Angeles with input from local collaborators.

His next project comprised three self-produced EPs issued across 2022 that together contained 17 songs. Slow Dance & Romance opened the sequence in April, Apple Pie appeared in July, and Inner Peace concluded the series in September. Conceived and tracked amid the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, the recordings were described as a catalog of his “mindset in lockdown.”