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.
― Tim F, Monday, 13 May 2013 01:04 (ten years ago) link
"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
― caek, Monday, 13 May 2013 20:41 (ten years ago) link
it's kind of like balearic taylor swift
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Monday, 13 May 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
ha, otm
― gr8080, Monday, 13 May 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
has anyone seen these guys live? playin tonight in london
― just sayin, Monday, 20 May 2013 08:51 (ten years ago) link
this new album is amazing, these songs are so effortless
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 15 June 2013 05:03 (ten years ago) link
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!
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 03:01 (ten years ago) link
Deluxe edition coming out soon, listening to the promo -- mostly remixes but some of those are great!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 August 2013 04:03 (ten years ago) link
"Crying Your Heart Out" (new song) is great https://soundcloud.com/paper-bag-records/young-galaxy-crying-my-heart-2/s-1H9fn
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 29 August 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLMxyKAOops
― groovypanda, Thursday, 12 December 2013 09:20 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oDE2DcB-tc
― ⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnAIO_Z89x0
― just sayin, Saturday, 19 September 2015 21:41 (eight years ago) link
^^
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 20 September 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=26&v=TUQz9aHeTvM
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 13:58 (eight years ago) link
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
― groovypanda, Friday, 30 October 2015 19:54 (eight years ago) link
Factory Flaws is the standout for me on the first couple of listens
― I am using your worlds, Saturday, 31 October 2015 16:27 (eight years ago) link
must be love & body are my favs i thnk
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 15:52 (eight years ago) link
Hoping they add some UK dates at some point
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niB1kBbxmQM
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 20:48 (eight years ago) link
I too like this new album, more than I liked the last one.
― michaellambert, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 22:41 (eight years ago) link
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.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 23 November 2015 03:05 (eight years ago) link
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