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Yinyang – shares her highly anticipated debut EP, The Lotus Throne (listen now), along with the focus track ‘Dumped Me In The Smoking Area’

YINYANG – the boundary-breaking alternative artist forged in Belfast’s underground music scene – today shares her highly anticipated debut EP, The Lotus Throne, along with the focus track ‘Dumped Me In The Smoking Area’, accompanied by a searing video, which she directed, produced and edited herself, on location in Thailand in December 2025. 

Known for blending punk-edged hip-hop with dark electronics and raw, intricate lyricism, YINYANG’s ‘Dumped Me In The Smoking Area’ is a hard-hitting fuck-you anthem pulsing with raw fury and that immediate, visceral rush of wanting to bite back. It’s bold in its vulnerability, capturing the pure rage that hits in the moments right after someone blindsides you. A breakup track at its core, you can feel the exact gut-punch moment that sparked these searing lyrics.

YINYANG says: “Breakups can be harsh; the instant jolt of redirection has you spinning. I had all this rage that needed somewhere to go that day, then ‘Dumped Me in the Smoking Area’ was born a couple of hours after. For a while it was hard to listen to but in hindsight I celebrate it, thankful for the redirection. I hope ‘Dumped Me In The Smoking Area’ can be your bounce back anthem, a reminder that negativity can be transmuted into something more powerful.”

‘Dumped Me In The Smoking Area’ follows previous single releases taken from The Lotus Throne,  ‘Birth & Death’ and ‘Parasite’. The EP is completed by ‘No More’, a 90-second joyride in backing yourself and refusing to carry other people’s projections. As the closing track, it distils the central theme of The Lotus Throne: beneath the surface of still water, in the mud between birth, death and becoming, the lotus blooms. Rising through the shadows to meet the light clean, it returns each day untainted. The Lotus Throne is both a seat and a state, the place where your higher self resides. ‘No More’ brings this journey home with the closing line “No more doing what someone else would do if you don’t want to / Your way is your DNA and that’s what makes you, you, baby” – a final reminder to stand in your own clarity.

THE LOTUS THRONE – TRACK LISTING 
1. Parasite
2. Birth & Death
3. Dumped Me In The Smoking Area 
4. No More

The Lotus Throne (listen now)

Ian Mc Donnell

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