Having been quite impressed when I first heard Yukon Blonde back in 2010, the five-piece Canadian band are now set to release their third album, the Dylan-referencing On Blonde on June 15 (Blonde on Blonde? Oh, please yourself) on Dine Alone/Caroline.

The album tracklisting is as follows:

1.Confused
2. Make U Mine
3. Como
4. I Wanna Be Your Man
5. Saturday Night
6. Hannah
7. You Broke The Law
8. Starvation
9. Favourite People
10. Jezebel

…and you can hear three tracks from the album below, featuring the band’s way with a tune, a chorus and drawing on their love of The Cure, The Strokes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs:

Remember how a couple of summers ago, the blogosphere was in thrall to the summery sounds of Fleet Foxes, how they appeared gently out of nowhere like a Pastoral Fleetwood Mac circa the Mid Seventies?

Well, on the evidence of ‘Wind Blows’ the track that has been made available for free download, and could well be this year’s ‘White Winter Hymnal’ Yukon Blonde should clear up this year.

Their self-titled album is out in March and hopefully the Vancouver quartet will come over to the UK to let us know how to get in touch with the gentles sides of our music collections.

For now, enjoy this, I’m playing it for the third time on the trot.

Yukon Blonde -‘Wind Blows.’ mp3