Radio One Chicago

Well Yells is darkwave, ghostly sounds, surreal lyrics that construct their own logic. It imagines the entity that you call to at the bottom of a well, or what it’s like to be inside a well. It’s the solo project of Chicagoan Patrick Holbrook, who wanted to do something with the music fragments he could remember from his dreams, and make a portal to his teenage days, when he learned to play bass by following along to Joy Division and Bauhaus songs. More recently, he runs the record label Hairy Spider Legs, and was in the music project Laughing Eye Weeping Eye with his wife Rebecca Schoenecker. Well Yells has drawn comparisons to The Cure, John Carpenter, The Legendary Pink Dots, Clan of Xymox, and A Certain Ratio.