A dozen years ago, as From the Hip was in its infancy, we did a lot of live concert and band portrait photography. Danny’s background in music journalism meant getting to work with fun acts like Chromeo, STRFKR, and Sebastien Tellier. As From the Hip has grown, it’s meant doing this sort of work less frequently, but we were excited to make an exception this month for one of our favorite acts, YACHT. Here’s the piece we wrote for our friends Cause = Time, where this review first appeared.

Despite their knack for innovative electro-pop witchcraft, “GRAMMY-nominated trio YACHT” isn’t a phrase many of us expected to encounter in 2020. Yet there was Claire Evans, in a brief lull between songs on the Larimer Lounge stage, lithe and beaming, her eyes and voice proclaiming, “We’re going to the GRAMMYs!”