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

this is growing on me

Still need to finally listen to it all the way through! So I'll do that here after lunch.

1/2 of it I loved immediately and the other half I wasn't so sure about but I'm liking it more and more.

played it for a friend who was wholly unfamiliar and he just said it sounded like less-grandiose Florence and the Machine :/

Have mixed feelings...definitely captures a ~~vibe~~ but the songs are kind of weak.

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

<3 <3 <3 <3

the way the music rises up behind 'when we rise up in fire'

so many great sonic details on here

i love love love the weird incantatory almost folky vibe of "fever" and "in fire"

She is so naively sincere the whole time.

Another reason why "What We Want" is the weak link here.

I like this but I still prefer Shapeshifting.

Also that Hanna EP is brilliant! I have been waiting for the members of Cat5 to do more stuff, the other girl was working with one of The Tough Alliance but seemingly nothing has came of that yet.

Yet another predictable Turrican comment coming up...

...yet another 2013 release I love... fucking hell!

I'm not sure about this overall, New Summer is amazing but overall it's a bit sickly, and most of the songwriting still isn't that great.

Yeah, I could happily take the Peaking Lights remix, "New Summer" and "Out the Gate Backwards" and leave the rest.

How could people not be into "Fall For You", the last thirty seconds especially

the last 30 secs of that are just fading out backing vox?

I'm not sure about this overall, New Summer is amazing but overall it's a bit sickly, and most of the songwriting still isn't that great.

― Matt DC, Thursday, May 9, 2013 10:15 AM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh, it's definitely sugary music, but I've always found room for the sugary from time to time... overall though, I just love the way this album sounds.

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