They’re like ‘well we couldn’t get Adele, but Yam Haus is the next best thing’ and they build the deck still! That was a fun one. The last one was a graduation party and a dream that the parents talked about for a long time was that when their daughter graduates, they were gonna build a deck over the pond and have Adele out and she’d sing at the graduation party. It’s so funny that they would take the time to actually build a platform. ZACH: It’s been fun! The last couple house shows that we played this summer – we’ll show up and the hosts will have actually built a stage. Especially being ‘Yam Haus’ we could just change the spelling to match our band. He ran that by us and we like ‘man, that sounds like an amazing idea’. LARS: It wasn’t our idea per se we had a guy we were working with from the east coast who had worked with some artists who did a lot of house shows. Was this your idea as a band? And have you had any crazy or really weird experiences with these shows? MM: I noticed that you guys kind of like to stray off the typical path, and one way you do this is with your Haus Shows. LARS: Yeah – we’re actually 30 minutes outside Minneapolis in a town called Hudson, Wisconsin, but we do a lot of work out of Minneapolis and that’s our main hub. MM: And you guys are from Minneapolis right? The album itself was very personal to me, and it was sort of pre- knowing what we were gonna do as a lineup. Jake, our drummer, we met in Minneapolis just playing around hearing about different local musicians and stuff. The rest of the guys – two of them are my really good high school buddies – Zach (bass) and Seth (guitar).

LARS: So that record was made a little bit before we knew what we were going to do as a band I mainly did the writing on it with our producer and kind of had a lot of it ready before we assembled the rest of the guys. MELODIC MAG: To start things off, I just wanted to take it back to your first release, Stargazer – what was the writing and recording process like for you guys with that record? The band consists of Lars Pruitt (vocals), Seth Blum (guitar), Zach Beinlich (bass), and Jake Felstow (drums).

We had the chance to chat with Minneapolis-based Yam Haus this week about their new single, “The Thrill,” their unique take on house shows, and their debut album, Stargazer.

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