Young Galaxy - Shapeshifting (2011) ~*produced by Studio's D. Lissvik*~

Oh I mean the 30 seconds before that

this type of sound is starting to grate a bit for me.

cannot, cannot understand why someone would possibly prefer Peaking Lights' "Pretty Boy" remix over the original

I would have said the same two weeks ago, and then it clicked. Right about the time I bought better headphones, though that might just be coincidence.

Into this!!

this type of sound is starting to grate a bit for me.

― ... (LocalGarda), Thursday, 9 May 2013 11:28 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think I felt this when I was first listening to "Pretty Boy", and I definitely still feel this way about "What We Want", but the songs are sonically diverse enough, and (this time) the songwriting strong enough, to get away with the fact that it's basically a 2007 record.

"meet me by the river / let's go for a ride / with the windows down and the STEREO LOUD"

<3 <3 <3 <3

― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Thursday, May 2, 2013 8:03 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

moment of the album

it's kind of like balearic taylor swift

ha, otm

has anyone seen these guys live? playin tonight in london

this new album is amazing, these songs are so effortless

Yeah, I haven't dug it out to listen to for a while, but I fully expect to still like it when I get around to hearing it again!

Deluxe edition coming out soon, listening to the promo -- mostly remixes but some of those are great!

"Crying Your Heart Out" (new song) is great https://soundcloud.com/paper-bag-records/young-galaxy-crying-my-heart-2/s-1H9fn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLMxyKAOops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oDE2DcB-tc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnAIO_Z89x0

^^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=26&v=TUQz9aHeTvM

Well, the new album is great.

Not sure there's anything on a par with New Summer or Cover Your Tracks (although that might change on repeated listens) but as a cohesive whole it's possibly better than the last one.

Entire thing is streaming on Soundcloud at the moment too

https://soundcloud.com/paper-bag-records/sets/young-galaxy-falsework/s-yoaPL

Factory Flaws is the standout for me on the first couple of listens

must be love & body are my favs i thnk

Hoping they add some UK dates at some point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niB1kBbxmQM

I too like this new album, more than I liked the last one.

so i guess i'm over the issues i had with the vocals four years ago, b/c i totally love their new album. i'm gonna have to go back and see if i'm into the older ones now, too.

they've really mastered these springy synthfunk grooves at this point, this is nice

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.

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

i love every track on it tho tbh

Falsework bonus track:

https://soundcloud.com/paper-bag-records/young-galaxy-were-you-ever-a-dreamer-bonus-track/s-L0NIR

Not sure what to make of this:

@younggalaxy
don'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

:-/

falsework is a great album that totally flopped

yeah it's a really good album

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.

i don't know if it's related to the above but they canceled their shows in L.A., S.F., and Vancouver : /

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.

i'll be at the nyc show

Falsework was my fave of the Lissvik albums.

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.

y'all sold me, seeing 'em next month in TO

Bought tickets to see them tonight....

About 40mins before this tweet:

https://twitter.com/subtchicago/status/695731352554074112

Had tickets to see them Wednesday night but was too tired from work to go. I feel bad.

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.

https://soundcloud.com/younggalaxy/young-galaxy-stay-for-real

very good

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

he is in part

Oh, yay! I was worried they might have called it quits. Sounds like they came close (then changed tack entirely)

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

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 source
of 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 had
deferred to their experience and therefore their values; we just focused on the music. But we
have 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 its
current state. The routes of communication that we are expected to pump content into feel like
someone else’s, and like its values, are commercial and superficial with no subtlety in its
preferred approach. Just sledgehammer.

For us, art communicates best in nuance, vulnerability, and fluid interpretations. It can speak to
and 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 to
Navigate.

CMcC and SR

BE A MESS
GET STRONG
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