they've really mastered these springy synthfunk grooves at this point, this is nice
― ciderpress, Sunday, 6 December 2015 16:32 (eight years ago) link
Factory Flaws grabbed me right away; lacking any more esoteric points of reference, I hear it as something between Talking Heads "This Must Be the Place" and Martin Rushent-era Human League.
Now the rest of the album is growing on me.
― fka styx (paul santa cruz), Sunday, 6 December 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link
the factory flaws - body - ready to shine run is perfect, ready to shine is vintage lissvik... those bouncy acoustic guitars, that elastic bassline, twinkling synths and chimes, mmm
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 7 December 2015 00:04 (eight years ago) link
i love every track on it tho tbh
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 7 December 2015 00:05 (eight years ago) link
Falsework bonus track:
https://soundcloud.com/paper-bag-records/young-galaxy-were-you-ever-a-dreamer-bonus-track/s-L0NIR
― groovypanda, Friday, 22 January 2016 08:47 (eight years ago) link
Not sure what to make of this:
@younggalaxydon't mean to sound dramatic, but these upcoming shows are all or nothing for us. if ur on the fence, consider that http://www.songkick.com/concerts/25331569-young-galaxy-at-le-poisson-rouge
― groovypanda, Friday, 22 January 2016 19:58 (eight years ago) link
:-/
falsework is a great album that totally flopped
― gr8080, Saturday, 23 January 2016 17:36 (eight years ago) link
yeah it's a really good album
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 23 January 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link
It seems to have gained no critical traction or discussion and I really don't understand why given that it's a distinct enough proposition from the previous two yet has the quality, and attached producer, of those albums.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 23 January 2016 18:48 (eight years ago) link
i don't know if it's related to the above but they canceled their shows in L.A., S.F., and Vancouver : /
― nomar, Saturday, 23 January 2016 18:51 (eight years ago) link
These handful of live shows are going to be stunning, and very unusual for a band at their level - highly choreographed, with elaborate lighting and set. Really hope people turn out (and critics turn up) to see the breadth of their vision what they're capable of.
― sean gramophone, Saturday, 23 January 2016 22:44 (eight years ago) link
i'll be at the nyc show
― adam, Saturday, 23 January 2016 23:24 (eight years ago) link
Falsework was my fave of the Lissvik albums.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 24 January 2016 19:15 (eight years ago) link
cosign sean here on the live show, great stuff. mirrored led synth triggered obelisks and gusgus dancing. best $12 i've spent in a long time.
― adam, Friday, 29 January 2016 13:00 (eight years ago) link
y'all sold me, seeing 'em next month in TO
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 29 January 2016 13:03 (eight years ago) link
Bought tickets to see them tonight....
About 40mins before this tweet:
https://twitter.com/subtchicago/status/695731352554074112
― gr8080, Friday, 5 February 2016 23:17 (eight years ago) link
Had tickets to see them Wednesday night but was too tired from work to go. I feel bad.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 5 February 2016 23:19 (eight years ago) link
They were really good in Toronto tonight, despite Catherine suffering from a chest cold that prompted her to stop the set and ask the crowd if they thought she sounded OK enough for the show to be worthwhile - then gritted through another 10 or so songs like a trooper.
Fuck the loud, beer-clinking bros behind me, though. An unexpected nuisance, doubly annoying because the band was relatively quiet.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 18 February 2016 04:57 (eight years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/younggalaxy/young-galaxy-stay-for-real
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 13 April 2017 19:25 (seven years ago) link
very good
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Thursday, 13 April 2017 21:34 (seven years ago) link
New album in April. Not sure if Lissvik is involoved with this one
https://aestheticmagazinetoronto.com/2018/01/10/young-galaxy-announces-new-album-down-time/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRO54r-0lMI
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link
he is in part
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 11 January 2018 00:27 (six years ago) link
Oh, yay! I was worried they might have called it quits. Sounds like they came close (then changed tack entirely)
― Simon H., Thursday, 11 January 2018 13:14 (six years ago) link
The first sample of the record arrives with lead single "Under My Wing," which Young Galaxy describe as being "about the failure of capitalism, the isolation of suburbia, and the drive to discover sensuality, connection, and a spark of life in the face of despair."
All my faves have become radicalized over time and it rules
― Simon H., Thursday, 11 January 2018 13:16 (six years ago) link
We want to say what we want to say when and how we want to say it. We own all Young Galaxy representations from this point onward, we are the generative sourceof all its emissions. There will be no spin, packaging or look we didn’t choose, determined by someone else’s worship of the almighty dollar/social media algorithm. We worship that deep consensus that comes with getting lost in music. We want to speak music as fluently as we’re able – by tuning in, listening, sharing coordinates, mapping the unfixed and unhinged places we all find ourselves at times. We wade in, fall apart, fail and hold up – articulate as a search for the right words for others trying to hold up, live and love. We found ourselves at a crossroads after our last album Falsework. We felt represented inaccurately through agents, labels, and other specialists in their fields because we haddeferred to their experience and therefore their values; we just focused on the music. But wehave been packaged wrong: It’s not accurate. We’re not nice. We are fucking kind. The truth is, we feel less and less interested in being represented by the music industry in itscurrent state. The routes of communication that we are expected to pump content into feel likesomeone else’s, and like its values, are commercial and superficial with no subtlety in itspreferred approach. Just sledgehammer. For us, art communicates best in nuance, vulnerability, and fluid interpretations. It can speak toand be made by outsiders, and can access counterculture in a way the industry machine cannot. So after more than 10 years in the music business, we ended many partnerships. As a female fronted act, popular culture has told us that we should be youthful, hip, and seductive. We felt anomalous in an industry that seemed intent on promoting The Rich, The New, The Wild. That’s NOT US. We own our age, our feminism, our human animal appetites, our role as parents, our grey hairs, rages and introspection. We call out from our autonomous, moving point in the dark because making music is a dialogue for Young Galaxy. We’re trying to reach others, we need to know where they are. But it’s pitch dark out here and experiencing it can make you hang in pieces, be as grizzled as we are, make you wake in desire, make you rage with pain or loneliness, so we have to call out in all the ways we have and can’t let someone else do it for us. We’ve now created and run multiple imprints to sustain our art, including our upcoming April 2018 self release of Down Time. Now, we collaborate on and co-produce all our music, artwork, photos, videos, merchandise, social media - the content and the cost of all we create is exclusively ours to bear. It is a site, an ever widening map of collective imaginings, dialogue and collaboration. So we’re calling out. We would like your support to be heard and we need your coordinates toNavigate. CMcC and SR BE A MESSGET STRONGTHROW BRIDGES
― sean gramophone, Monday, 26 February 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
For those of you who missed hearing our new single, here it is. We hope you like our new direction https://t.co/3PicG2aEo0— Young Galaxy (@younggalaxy) January 11, 2018
― gr8080, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 12:57 (six years ago) link
uhmm
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 13:00 (six years ago) link
lmao
always rooting for these folks
― Simon H., Tuesday, 27 February 2018 13:03 (six years ago) link
[url=http://www.northerntransmissions.com/song-of-the-day/catch-breath-young-galaxy/'Catch Your Breath'[/url] is really good.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 13:04 (six years ago) link
smh
Catch Your Breath
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 13:05 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VVnTMl25uw
― groovypanda, Thursday, 29 March 2018 14:13 (six years ago) link
new record is pretty subdued but is rewarding repeated listens. there's less lissvik, i think, but no drop in quality.
seeing them tonight, psyched b/c their last tour was bananas and fantastic
― adam, Friday, 13 April 2018 14:07 (six years ago) link
Proud 2 have our friends at @gorillavsbear premiere our video for Future, made by our brilliant friend Adam Sajkowski at Hotel Sport. This is our final dispatch for the foreseeable future, as we are announcing YG’s hiatus. What a great way to go out 💙💜 https://t.co/vJf8yeaZLG— Young Galaxy (@younggalaxy) September 24, 2018
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 07:55 (five years ago) link
https://popmontreal.com/en/artists/detail/light-conductor/
https://montreal.carpe-diem.events/calendar/7987237-riohv-canhota-physio-choozey-at-datcha-nite-fundraiser-at-datcha/
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 13:07 (five years ago) link
I slept on their (self-released?) album from last year but "Frontier" has really snuck up on me as an expansive chill jam.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 10 September 2019 07:30 (four years ago) link
Important thread from a big gentle hearted, beautiful talent. When Matt joined YG we became a band for the first time. ❤️ https://t.co/K1FuzLHd4e— Young Galaxy (@younggalaxy) February 12, 2021
― groovypanda, Friday, 12 February 2021 12:10 (three years ago) link
still listen to Shapeshifting all the time
― fbclid=fhAZ3l (f. hazel), Friday, 12 February 2021 14:27 (three years ago) link
new record coming w j*r•my gr••ensp•n
― sean gramophone, Friday, 12 February 2021 14:35 (three years ago) link
both the spinoff projects are very good. riches on the slow burn late galaxy vibe and light conductor doing eurorack yoga tunes.
wait new YG record!?
― adam, Friday, 12 February 2021 14:36 (three years ago) link
y
― sean gramophone, Friday, 12 February 2021 14:39 (three years ago) link
please remember your vowels and verbs, punk rockers fought steely dan to the death for your right to use them
― fbclid=fhAZ3l (f. hazel), Friday, 12 February 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
― willem, Friday, 12 February 2021 15:39 (three years ago) link
extremely bummed to check the YG twitter only to find a bunch of idiotic web3/NFT bullshit
― adam, Sunday, 19 December 2021 12:52 (two years ago) link