Inspired by Walt Whitman's promise to 'Sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world,' Denver Colorado's The Yawpers have set about bringing together disparate pieces of the American music lexicon and making it their own.

The sonic backbone to the Yawpers stripped down - yet brazen- sound are the overdriven acoustic guitars and trap kit. Equal parts frenetic, earnest, and menacing, it's a combination that is uniquely and accurately Yawper...