Our first magazine of 2019 is a landmark for us. So Young started as a bedroom project and nearly six years on, we are remarkably releasing our twentieth issue. Thanks for sticking with us. Issue Twenty welcomes Fat White Family back to the cover, as one of the most important bands of the last few years return with their third album, ‘Serfs Up!’. Lias, Nathan and Alex speak honestly to us about the new sounds as well as the darker times that they overcame. It’s impossible to escape Fontaines D.C. at the minute. The Dublin band have played every city and festival in the last 12 months and we gave them a call whilst they were on the road in Europe to talk about their debut album which is out in April. Staying in Ireland and the Dublin scene, The Murder Capital are the next band to step up and meet the hype. We chat about playing outside of Ireland, toxic masculinity and more. Nilüfer Yanya has had a whirlwind 12 months, featuring on every buzz list going and for good reason. We met up with Nilüfer in London for a chat and
We spoke to the band after their Valentines Day show at
Moth Club. Keeping the New York theme, Sunflower Bean have been keeping up the momentum with the release of
new EP ‘King of the Dudes’. Julia and Nick took our call and they told us all about their love for London and their
DIY DNA. An eight hour flight back and we catch up with three of the UK’s most exciting new bands. We get an
insight into the worlds of Squid, Working Mens Club and Talk Show. Black Country, New Road are another band
breaking out of the London scene. We dig in and put pen
to paper on what we know so far. Three exciting projects across the UK are Antonia Marsh’s, Soft Opening, The
Pistonhead Foundation and Deptford Northern Soul Club.
In a breather from our favourite bands, we send over some Qs to find out what they’ve been doing. ‘Who Are You?’
returns to shed some light on the underground. Expect brief introductory chats with Public Practice, Famous, Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, Hussy and more.
she took us back to the beginning, speaking about getting into music and the pressure of writing the debut album. Brooklyn’s Surfbort have been taking the UK by storm, playing support shows with Wolf Alice as well as sold out shows in the capital.
3 Sunflower Bean King of the Dudes 6 Fat White Family Serf’s Up! 11 Surfbort High Anxiety 14 Talk Show Fast and Loud 15 Soft Opening Antonia Marsh 18 Fontaines D.C. Big 25 NOV3L To Whom It May Concern
30 Nilüfer Yanya Tears 34 Working Men’s Club Bad Blood 35 Deptford Northern Soul Club Lewis Henderson 38 The Murder Capital Feeling Fades 39 Squid Houseplants 41 Who Are You? Get to know 44 Black Country, New Road Athen’s, France 45 The Pistonhead Foundation Rockabilly Saviours
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Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard What’s special about where you’re from? Cardiff is a really great place for positivity, everyone has a real affection for working together and making music, which has been a huge inspiration for us. The way that everybody works in Cardiff kind of encourages you to make whatever music you want to make and feel confident whilst doing it, which is how we have the confidence to play songs about denim.
Famous We are a group of relatively close friends from England and Scotland. We make music that is sometimes lots of fun but is mostly very sad.
Can you tell us something that you collectively hate? I would say something egalitarian like the gender pay gap (which we do hate) but for the purpose of light reading, I’d say Guns ’n’ Roses.
What’s special about where you’re from? Only a couple of us are from London, most of us are from small towns. London is the greatest city on earth and inspires us daily. One day, we’d like to play on the roof of The Shard; just like The Beatles.
Hussy Can you tell us who you are, where you’re from and about the music you make? I’m Sophie and I make music under the name Hussy. I live in South East London but am originally from the middle of nowhere in the North of England. I’m a one woman band on record and make everything myself as a lofi meets hifi ambition bedroom studio project. I like to merge my love of weird stuff and pop music. I equally love Sonic Youth and Ariel Pink.
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Lacuna Common
A.Swayze & the Ghosts
We all come from Abingdon, a small town next to Oxford,
I’m Andrew Swayze, front man and sporadic guitarist of the
and we make indie/rock music about a lot of topics such as
rollicking Australian punk band A. Swayze and the Ghosts.
growing up in our generation and a lot of stories us or our
We make music from tangible instruments, and play them
friends have experienced, We try to combine to-the-bone
with our own hands too! It comes out abrasive, energetic
lyrics, twisting melodic bass lines and gritty guitar tones
and always slightly on the verge of all falling apart, but it’s
with Gabe hitting the skins like a freak at the back.
real and we fucking love it.
Can you tell us something that you collectively hate?
What’s special about where you’re from? Has it inspired your music?
Dark Fruits Tasmania is a picturesque but slow moving place that is slightly detached from the rest of Australia both physically and socially – we were bored and isolated as kids. The art
Public Practice
scene here is huge and you can find absolute integrity in how people portray their ideas – I attribute a hell of a lot of
We are Public Practice which is comprised of a Sam, Scott,
our band’s artistic attitude to the place we grew up, it’s a
Drew, and a Vince. From Brooklyn, NY. The music we make
wild place.
could best be described as danceable haikus. Can you tell us something that you collectively really love? Our budget dentist in Brooklyn we all go to. Can you tell us the story behind one of your songs? One of the songs on our debut EP could be described simply as Hemingway’s ‘The Sun Also Rises’ feat. the 2016 US election.
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