This is a pre-order. The album is released September 12th and orders will be sent out before that.
Artist: YAST
Album: Premium
Label: Adrian Recordings
Release date: September 12
Format: 12" vinyl album
In another universe, YAST could have been Tame Impala or DIIV — bands they once shared stages with and were mentioned alongside in the major trendsetting American music blogs a decade ago but YAST was never really that kind of band. YAST is a small-town band, in the most beautiful sense of the word — where friendship, sharing a pizza and a cheap beer at the local hangout, and eating dinner together means more than burning out on the road. YAST knows this. They did it for 10 years, and it came at a cost — it cost 10 years.
But it's thanks to that experience that, in 2025, we now get a new album from one of Sweden’s finest dream pop outfits. The dream is still intact. The melodies remain ethereal, the guitars shimmer just the same — only now everything feels deeper, more grounded in the shared will of five people to simply make music together, regardless of whether there's an audience or not.
On September 12, YAST releases their third studio album, “Premium” — an album they describe as a self-help record full of heartfelt, self-help pop. Because honestly, it’s easy to feel like the worst version of yourself most of the time. It helps to hear someone say it’s okay, that things don’t always go as planned.
YAST was never on hiatus. Sure, side projects and commitments in bands like Toi Let, Nightmen, Per och Olof, PURRPURR, and solo acts like Marcus Norberg and the Disappointments may have taken the spotlight at times — but YAST has always existed, occasionally appearing together on stage. It wasn’t until they let go of the idea of what they “should” sound like, stopped chasing a sound or reference, and just played the new songs that everything clicked. The songs shaped the sound, not the other way around.
That realization — that they still know how to write great songs — is what makes Premium feel so vital and present in 2025. That, and Emil Isaksson’s delicate touch at Studio Möllan during the recording sessions.
About YAST
YAST is a Swedish dream pop/indie band formed in 2007 in Sandviken by Carl Kolbaek-Jensen, Tobias Widman, and Marcus Norberg. In 2008, they relocated to Malmö, where they were joined by Markus Johansson and Niklas Wennerstrand from Sandviken’s post-rock band Aerial. There, they found their true home in the inspiring Malmö music scene and with the label Adrian Recordings.
YAST debuted with the single “Believes” in 2012, followed by their self-titled debut album YAST in 2013 and its acclaimed successor My Dreams Did Finally Come True in 2015. On September 12, 2025, they release their long-awaited third album, Premium.
File YAST 2025 under: The Saints, Kurt Vile, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Jayhawks, Dinosaur Jr., Tom Petty, and Neil Young.
