Idolator

Welcome to another edition of Track Marks, in which your Idolators perform an autopsy on the latest band burning up the MP3-blogger charts.

Artist: YACHT
Hometown: Portland, Ore.
Album: I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real, out May 8
First blog mention: A bit of May 2005 show promotion from a friend on The Microphones' Livejournal group.
The Build-Up: The beats that YACHT (a.k.a. Jona Bechtolt) supplied for The Blow's lovely Paper Televison got a lot of positive buzz around the time of that record's release; in November, a one-hour set that he curated for French National Radio received blog love from Your Daily Awesome, Slutty Fringe, and Gorilla Vs. Bear, among others.
The Dam-Break: "See A Penny (Pick It Up)" was released to the blogs this week, and Gorilla Vs. Bear got lucky with it on March 23; other heavy hitters in the music-blog world, like largehearted boy, *SIXEYES, extrawack!, Stereogum, and GIMME TINNITUS, followed.
Odds of Backlash: 3-1. The Fader has threatened "Akon-level posting" about him in the near future, so some sort of YACHT-lash is inevitable.
Are They Worthy?: We loved the beats this dude put down for the Blow. But are we the only people who think that "Penny" is really a tweaked-out version of the Rolling Stones' "Miss You" that has a little bit of The Knife's "Heartbeats" mixed in for good measure?

YACHT - See A Penny, Pick It Up [MP3, link expired]
YACHT [MySpace]
[Photo via Your Daily Awesome]