Few musicians understand the balance between aptitude and artistry better than Yvette Young. Sitting down with K! to discuss catharsis – the excellent third album from her band Covet – the San Jose native is already one of today’s most renowned rock virtuosos. But as the record’s title suggests, it’s about using that vertiginous skill to purge the pressure within. Starting piano at just four years old, then violin at seven, Yvette’s talent was prodigious. But under the expectant gaze of Beijing-born parents, who themselves met through and excelled at music, the beauty of the form was eclipsed by the strictness and stress that accompanied it. “To be blunt, I developed an eating disorder,” Yvette identifies the nadir of her relationship with performance as the turning point th...