Yttling & Yukimi ‘Distant Star’
Today's Top Tune
KCRW
4.2 • 554 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Today's Top Tune: Yttling & Yukimi ‘Distant Star’
Yttling Jazz returns with the new single “Distant Star,” featuring Yukimi of Little Dragon. The collaboration unites Björn Yttling’s (Peter Björn and John) vibrant blend of alt-pop and cinematic jazz with Yukimi’s unmistakable, soulful voice. The result is an adventurous, upbeat track that channels a New Orleans–tinged indie mystique, balancing lively brass arrangements with rhythmic depth and subtle emotional gravity.
(Yttling Jazz)
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| 0:00.0 | A Devil in your smile, you took me for a ride. |
| 0:28.6 | How can I explain? |
| 0:32.6 | I'll soon be washed away every night and every day. How I long for you to stay when I shatter |
| 0:41.3 | when I wasted all away distance star no one knows if it's near or far no one knows that my question is so hard. |
| 0:58.0 | When I go watch me fall to the ground and be gone. I know winning your grin, a heart that you can spin. |
| 1:23.6 | Break it, take it all, tap the the ball every night and every day how I long for you to stay |
| 1:34.3 | When I shatter when I lose it all I know |
| 1:38.3 | Distance star no one knows if it's near or far |
| 1:47.0 | No one knows if I brush so high |
| 1:52.0 | When I go watch me fall to the ground |
| 1:57.0 | Fought in the ground and be gone Yeah Just this star No one knows if it's near or far No one knows if it's near or far |
| 2:35.0 | No one knows it might crush me so hard |
| 2:41.0 | When I go watch me fall to the ground and be gone |
| 2:47.0 | Death and star No one knows that it's near |
| 2:54.6 | Oh, no one knows that my crush is so high |
| 3:00.6 | When I go watch me |
| 3:03.6 | Both to the ground |
| 3:05.6 | Both to the ground and be gone |
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