Yours by Blue Navy

"Top Slowcore Albums of 2020 - #1" (March 2021, February 2022)
"Top Dream Pop Albums of 2020 - #2" (February 2022)
"Top Ambient Pop Albums of 2020 - #2" (February 2022) - RateYourMusic

"Beautiful, sad, Dead Can Dance-inspired..." - Amboss Mag

"Lush, beautiful, atmospheric..." - Brenna Cavanaugh, Shoegaze Sundays

"[Blue Navy's] best release to date... very dramatic and heavy." - Dan Weston, Divide & Conquer

"A sinister touch [is] contained within its spacious and expansive soundscapes. Dreamy pop at its most mysterious and brilliant." - Tom Hilton, Aldora Britain Records

"[Yours] is undoubtedly an epic journey of heartbreak, emotional pain, and sensation that came right out of the heart of Jake Dryzal himself." - ~mdburns729

*Featured on White Light//White Heat Weekly Shoegaze/Dream Pop Playlist (12/8/2020)*

*"Slept" featured in Aldora Britain: A Weekend with Blanche Hudson*
*"Slept" featured in La Danse Macabre 9*
*"Slept" featured on Records I Like (12/29/2020)*
*"Slept" featured on Angel in the Dark YouTube channel (12/16/2020)*

'Yours' is the third album by Blue Navy. Throughout the course of its 70-minute runtime, 'Yours' explores lengthy ambient drones, ethereal swirls, glimmering guitar work, and climactic builds to further document Dryzal's deepest limerence. 'Yours' will be the last installment in Dryzal's "Heartbreak Trilogy" ['Mine', 'Ours', and 'Yours'].

Last autumn, during my junior year of college, I fell into one of the worst emotional low points of my entire life. Several weeks into the semester, I realized that I was becoming disillusioned with campus life and, as a result, was starting to feel really homesick. I tried to combat these feelings by connecting with someone that I thought cared, only for me to be rejected. After this, I felt absolutely devastated and hopeless. I truly thought that the universe was working against me, and that I would never find happiness in my life again. I started crying all the time, wondering why this was happening to me. I stopped eating regularly. I wasn't putting forth any effort in my assignments anymore. I became cold and distant toward my friends. And I began to downright hate college. I remember wanting to get the hell out of there when winter break came. Regardless, when classes started back up again for the spring, the demons lingered; not as strongly, but still present. I was constantly worried that I would relive those awful experiences. Spring break arrived before I even knew it, but I still wasn't looking forward to returning due to those aforementioned circumstances.

Ultimately though, COVID-19 came along, and due to the shutdowns, I literally could not go back to school. Even though I was now extremely worried about my physical well-being, the COVID-19 lockdowns turned out to be an absolute blessing for my mental health. I was able to find comfort through the support of my close family and friends, and I was also able to rebuild my home recording studio. Having more time to explore my creativity made me feel better almost instantly, and I spent most of the spring and summer trying to be as musically productive as I could.

The end result is 'Yours', my third, and probably final, Blue Navy album. The nine songs on this record have me reflect on this rather dark period of my life; they were made to finally dispel the sadness that had haunted my mind for several months. This newest project was a labor of love and I believe that it is the true culmination of everything I've done musically as Blue Navy. I'm extremely proud of this album and I really hope that it will move you and/or do you well.

Thank you all for everything.

- Jake

Tracklist

1.	The Garden of Roses	7:16

2.	Another Autumn Lost	4:46

3.	Slept	5:52

4.	In April	5:48

5.	Every Heart Is a Hole	2:44

6.	The Memory of Our Former Selves	6:44

7.	Forever Burnt	20:30

8.	Untrue	4:35

9.	From the Balcony I Gazed Down Toward Your Green Smiling Eyes	11:03

Credits

released December 4, 2020

All songs written, composed, and performed by Jake Dryzal
Produced by Jake Dryzal

The songs on this album were written from March-July 2020, except:
#1, written in May 2015
#5, written in January 2018
The spoken word section of #7, written in summer 2016

Recorded at home from March-August 2020
Mixed using GarageBand and Sony Vegas Pro 8 from March-September 2020
Mastered using Logic Pro X from September-October 2020
Female voice samples on #9 generously provided by Karuna Satori ASMR / Sarah Toth

Cover art design by Jake Dryzal
Photos of Blue Navy taken by Mike Burns

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