yeule: Tiny Desk Concert

VPM | By Robin Hilton

Published January 22, 2026 at 10:00 AM EST

In this new era of indie rock, yeule has become a leading voice. With a beautifully moody catalog of gauzy, sometimes sludgy songs that roar while drifting through the ether, they got swept up in the shoegaze revival. But even as they have embraced more pop sensibilities, yeule’s sound has remained spectral and enigmatic, washed out in a vast sea of reverb and noise.

But yeule strips away much of that for this Tiny Desk performance, captured in our sunlit office on a bright autumn afternoon. The drums are softened with towels on the heads and, while the guitars still get loud and fuzzy, yeule’s voice is out front and entirely unaffected or processed with the kind of studio effects fans are used to.

Backed by their band, yeule opens with two relatively bright and shimmery cuts, “Dudu” and “VV,” both from Evangelic Girl is a Gun, before shifting gears for the guitar-heavy “dazies” from 2023’s softscars. They close with “sulky baby,” featuring yeule on bowed guitar.

SET LIST

“Dudu”
“VV”
“dazies”
“sulky baby”

MUSICIANS

yeule: vocals, guitar, keys
Chris Greatti: guitar
Topaz Faerie: bass
Ryan Bernardo: drums

TINY DESK TEAM

Producer: Robin Hilton
Director/Editor: Maia Stern
Audio Engineer/Mix: Neil Tevault
Host/Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Videographers: Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Kara Frame
Audio Engineer: Hannah Gluvna
Production Assistants: Dora Levite, Dhanika Pineda
Photographer: Alanté Serene
Tiny Desk Team: Josh Newell, Ashley Pointer
Series Editor: Lars Gotrich
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Executive Director: Sonali Mehta
Series Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson, Robin Hilton

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Robin Hilton

Robin Hilton is the Senior Podcast Producer for NPR Music and hosts the New Music Friday episodes of All Songs Considered. He is also a composer and multi-instrumentalist whose original scores have appeared in podcasts, films, radio programs and other works. He arranged and performed the theme for NPR's Weekend All Things Considered and composed and performed its elections coverage theme. You can hear more of his music here.

Prior to joining NPR in 2000, Hilton co-founded Small Good Thing Productions, a non-profit production company for independent film, radio and music in Athens, Georgia.

Hilton lived and worked in Japan as an interpreter for the government, and taught English as a second language to junior high school students.

From 1989 to 1996, Hilton worked for NPR member stations KANU and WUGA as a senior producer and assistant news director and was a long-time contributing reporter to NPR's daily news programs All Things Considered and Morning Edition.

Along the way, Hilton worked as an emergency room orderly, a blackjack dealer and a fruitcake factory assembly lineman.

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