Seraphina Lotkhamnga on June 27th, 2014

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If Simon & Garfunkel loved synths as much as Alex Pfender and Noah Dietterich, there’s a large chance they would have sounded like L.A.-based yOya. Releasing beautiful single after heartrending single, the duo has kept it simple while going big with their soaring melodies. The clip co-directed by Dave Suchanek and Eleanore Kody does the same as the slight embellishments create just enough mystery but never take the focus off the music. It’s funny to think a band who’s helped flesh out the genre “folk-tronica” can still be compared to the songwriters of “The Sound of Silence,” but it’s also not hard to think yOya could be neck-in-neck with Paul and Simon if there were ever an epic battle of the harmonies.

||| Live: yOya plays July 1 at the Echo with Phox and Trails & Ways.

||| Previously: “King of Nothing,” “I’ll Be the Fire,” “Come Alive,” “Lovers On”