Friday jam!
Vancouver's Sleepy Tom teamed up with fellow YVR-ers Youngblood for this new track titled "In My Head" that is likely going to make it on my Biking-To-The-Beach playlist!
His new EP is due out in 2019, so we'll have to just listen to this one on repeat until then.
Have a great weekend!
Photo by Mallory Turner
Probably my most anticipated new release for the rest of the year is Youngblood's upcoming EP, Fantasy Love, due out on August 17th.
"Dark Place" is the second peek we're getting at it, a song that singer Alexis Young describes says "speaks to the masochistic tendency of repeatedly making the same mistake and not understanding the compromising effects of that until it's too late. Sometimes you really need to have something completely fall apart and be destroyed before you are able to fully understand its value. It is the thrilling allure of pressing the self-sabotage button and watching what unfolds before you."
Photo: Mandy Lyn Antoniou
One of my favourite new bands out of Vancouver in the last few years is Youngblood, and I've been eagerly waiting for more new music from them, since their '016 EP Feel Alright.
Luckily the wait is over with "Better When Your Close", a sexy song with a creepy video (I feel like 'sexy with a hint of sinister' is very "on-brand" for the band). The song is the first single from the upcoming EP Fantasy Love, due out in July, and is "about romantic obsession to the point of possession- where you feel like your entire body and mind have been involuntarily taken over by the mere proximity of another person and you've lost your sense of self," according to singer Alexis Young. "It's about coming to terms with the realities of putting love and lust on a pedestal, and just how quickly a person can become consumed by infatuation of the highest degree. Crippling, consuming, and it also has a sweet bass line that you can dance to, because why not.”
We've got a new (lyric) video for "Broken English" by Youngblood, off of their fall release Feel Alright! Have a listen below, and note that all of those letters for the lyrics were cut out by hand!
The band is heading out on tour with stops at JUNOfest, and on to CMW, but first they'll be performing with Mother Mother this Thursday at the Commodore!
It's Valentine's Day, and sometimes you want to hear love songs and sometimes you want to here just the opposite. So each of us decided to pick our favourite Canadian love song, and an anti-love song. Enjoy them below! (And if you're looking to hear some Vancouver musicians live tonight - check out Vintage Valentine's at the Fox Cabaret - event page here.)
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Kirk's Picks
Love Song:
"Infamous" by Basia Bulat
I think this one might fall a little more under the category of "Unrequited Love Song", but I have a little more experience with that than...
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So, right off the bat, as far as I know this song isn't about the band Youngblood, but that would be fun, right?
New music from Little India this week, with an album (Neon Jungle) on the horizon as well. "Youngblood" has shades of other songs that I can't put my finger on (it's driving me nuts), but it's all the good stuff: danceability, a sing-along chorus that's already stuck in my head, driving drums.
Take a listen below and be prepared to shimmy in your seat.
Click the image to hear the playlist!
No fancy name this week to get you all confused - this playlist is made up of songs by 14 artists, all of which will be playing in Vancouver this June!
There's even more artists than this, some will be at the first Red Truck Concert Series show, and many will be at the VCBW festival this weekend (click here for details).
Click the image above (or here) to sample some of the music coming to a venue near you, and check out our CONCERT CALENDAR to find out the info on all of the shows coming up this month and down the road.