The Underground Youth from Manchester, UK return with their new release Haunted. The nine-track album will be released September 7, 2015 on Fuzz Club Records.
The Underground Youth blend the sounds of shoegaze, post-punk and psychedelic rock with their own hauntingly beautiful twist. The creative project of Craig Dyer was started in 2008 and is currently based in Manchester.
Since 2009 The Underground Youth unrelentingly rocked up stages all across Europe and blossomed massively out of the sight of major media. If we were to ask the meaning of “underground culture” in 2015, specifically in relation to music, Craig and Ola Dyer would certainly be able to provide an authoritative answer. They have been preaching their secret Rock & Roll parable to a semi-scattered elite of loyal initiates, who supported them throughout their artistic mission until today.
At the present, they have released seven LPs and three EPs – most of which have been pressed on vinyl by Fuzz Club. They are hot, not in a way to appear as NMEʼs featured band, they are more like the decadeʼs gospel of the underground. Itʼs a gospel which has constantly inundated the crammed underground blogosphere of the globe – just try and google it up, youʼll get burnt – and earned them the respect of the entire new age tribe of Psych- Rockers, and more.
Recorded between August 2014 and January 2015, Haunted marks a distancing from the Psychedelic atmospheres of the origins to a more radical 1980s Noise and Post-Punk sound, which was already palpable in their last EP, Beautiful & Damned. However, as for their previous releases, they have been faithful to their key purposes and DIY aesthetics and have not lost their unique taste for Pop melodies, which make them so special. It was religiously home recorded in their Manchester home-studio, with the contribution of producer James Shillito and it is the damning evidence that The Underground Youth are one of the few guitar bands to be able to craft beautiful songs and mesmerise crowds, using such simple and spontaneous recording techniques.
A declared Bob Dylanʼs fan, Craig Dyer is once again exploring literature through music. To put it with his own words: “the intention was to create a dark and unsettling musical atmosphere to host the lyrical content, each song the detailing of a characterʼs struggle with a different affliction. Like a series of intrusive nightmares.”
Track Listing:
- Collapsing Into Night
- Haunted
- Dreaming With Maya Deren
- Self Inflicted
- Drown In Me
- The Girl Behind
- Slave
- Deep Inside Of Me
- Returning To Shadow
Pre-order Haunted here.