Issue Thirty-Five Also inside: VLURE Warmduscher M(h)aol Porchlight Surfbort Pozi Automotion Just Mustard Los Bitchos Henry Carlyle
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This issue of So Young sees us wave goodbye to 2021, a
In Glasgow, VLURE are preparing for the release of
year which has forced reflection and stimulated gratitude
their debut EP, ‘Euphoria’. The band take us through the
as the world of live music clambers back off of its knees.
‘Hero’s Journey’ told within the EP and walk us through
One of the biggest success stories of the last 12 months,
their intent to band together and move forwards with their
and in fact, the pandemic era, are Leeds’ Yard Act. Barely
community. The Orielles’ Henry Carlyle has been using
a show to their name upon the first lockdown and now
any breathing space from the band to spend time alone and
the band are preparing to release their debut album to a
create. The outcome has been an exciting solo project and
hungry fan base. They’re on the cover and we chat to them
the fruit so far is single, ‘The Ground’. Forever intrigued
post Jools Holland about the influence of Hip Hop and
by his work, we caught up on the plan and thrashed out the
building a universe.
differences between going solo and sharing ideas.
On the flipside, Just Mustard have had a quiet year or so,
In South London, Pozi have just shared their new EP,
as Covid-19 stopped the Dundalk band’s plans in their
‘Typing’ via PRAH Recordings. Following a busy summer
tracks. The five piece are now back and teasing their new
of festival shows and a new body of work to tour, it
album. We gave them a call to check in on how they’ve
felt like the right time to get to know them better. Also
actively stopped the pandemic seeping into their music
ready to take to the road and take over the world are Los
and how they’ve used this time to prepare.
Bitchos. The band will soon be bringing the party in the form of debut album ‘Let The Festivities Begin’ and we
The always colourful and self declared ‘Tortured Artists’,
gave them a video call to chat Margaritas, Mac DeMarco
Surfbort have recently shared thier new album, ‘Keep
and the influence of Lindsay Lohan.
On Truckin’. Via zoom, they talk us through how they rekindled their DIY spirit whilst changing labels and were
Finishing us off are the new sounds of Ireland’s,
inspired by Patti Smith. Staying in the world of chaos and
M(h)aol, a band who are responsible for Dublin
new labels, Warmduscher are preparing for the release of
University’s first Feminist Society, Brighton’s Porchlight,
their new album after signing with Bella Union. We gave
who are still weighing up whether they’d prefer to
them a call to discover how commercial sounds have been
tour with Dua Lipa or Fontaines D.C. and London’s,
balanced out with lots of swearing, and how working with
Automotion, a band who sit within a genre but don’t want
Hot Chip’s Al Doyle and Joe Goddard came by chance.
to get too comfortable.
3 VLURE Euphoria 7 Warmduscher Wild Flowers 13 Yard Act Payday 19 Porchlight Country Manor 23 M(h)aol Gender Studies
30 Surfbort Keep On Truckin’ 33 Pozi Typing 38 Automotion In Motion 41 Just Mustard I Am You 46 Henry Carlyle The Ground 49 Los Bitchos Let The Festivites Begin
Opposite, Kristina Tzekova
Were there any things in particular that were present around you at the time that influenced the new record? In the cities, you sometimes see people like camped out at certain locations, and there’s a lot of drug dealing and all kinds of illicit activity going on. We talked about that as kind of like a loose concept, but it runs through the whole album. That’s how it started, just having a stupid conversation about that, and then just laughing and going from there. It’s the same with ‘Tainted Lunch’, I’d read
I don’t necessarily think it’s better. I just think it’s
a story about a guy in Germany who was poisoning his
different. I did a song I really liked way back when I was
workmates for 20 years straight, and then one person
doing Mutado Pintado; I’d written this song I was really
finally caught him on camera and saw him like dumping
into, all life experiences and stuff like that, and then it
this poison in his workmate’s coffee. Look it up, it’s crazy.
got a 2 from a press review. Then I’ll do something like
But yeah, the recurring theme here is people losing it, just
‘Eating Glue’ for Paranoid London, where I just talked a
partying and throwing it all away - that type of shit, you
bunch of shit off the top of my head, and that got me work
know?
for about three years. It doesn’t really add up, but for whatever reason, the stuff that works for me is the surreal
When doing things on the spot, how do you let the
weirdness.
imagination run loose? What are your techniques for knowing what is going to work for a song?
You’re going on the road next year in support of the record. How do you feel like what you’ve been making
I get super inspired just by words themselves. I could
over the last year and a half is going to project onto
come up with titles sometimes before the songs and then
the live stage? What have you been working towards to
generally everything I write about is probably a story of
make it better for bigger venues?
someone that I’ve met before and then putting my own weird kind of spin on it. I like writing on the spot, and I
My goal is to make bigger stage shows and create these
think it always comes out a little bit better. Sometimes I’ll
worlds that we talked about like how they used to do it.
spend all this time telling stories and things like that, and
My first memorable show was James Brown. I was like,
then like, 9 out of 10 times it gets niched for just making
11 years old as a kid, and it just blew my mind. Obviously,
it up.
I’m not going to be James Brown or anything like that, but I want to put on a night where people come from start
Do you feel it’s better when you don’t put the pressure
to finish it’s good vibes. The goal is to make it as big as it
on yourself to think of something creative?
can really be. You still wind up getting the raucous shows as well, that’s just the nature of how we are. Hopefully we’ll get to tour the US, and we’ve got the Forum show on April 7th, which will be our biggest headline show. That’s super exciting. But yeah, you’ve got to throw those curveballs in sometimes and give people something that they’re not going to expect. I mean, the shit that I would like to do will definitely get me in trouble.
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Margherita Sabbioneda Shingraphik Céllii Béllii
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