Transit Yellow is a Lovecraftian music project built on the dread of weird fiction.
Cosmic horror, played slow and heavy. The ground is H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos ("The Call of Cthulhu," "At the Mountains of Madness," "The Whisperer in Darkness," "The Colour Out of Space"), running on through Robert W. Chambers's The King in Yellow, which Lovecraft folded into his own mythology, Frank Belknap Long's "The Hound of Tindalos," the cold cosmic engineering of Iain M. Banks and Arthur C. Clarke, and the wider weird fiction of Robert Aickman and Thomas Ligotti. From the drowned spires of R'lyeh to the courts of the King in Yellow to the empty dark between the stars.
The core sound is the low, slow weight of doom and the wide drift of space rock, riffs that unfold like something vast turning in its sleep. It reaches out from there into cold post-punk and coldwave, into the groan of vessels breaking apart between stars, into the register of things filed and quietly forgotten. Cosmic horror music for readers, gamers, and anyone who knows the universe is indifferent and the deep places are occupied.
The name comes from nowhere and everywhere. Transit: the passage between states, the crossing of thresholds, the moment between waking and whatever comes after. Yellow: the colour of old pages, of the King's ragged robes, of the sickly light that leaks through cracks in the world.