Sydney band, Youth Group! The cult outfit, best known for their worldwide hit & 4x platinum single ‘Forever Young’, will release their first album in ten years titled Australian Halloween, lead by the LP’s first single ‘Cusp’ – out everywhere now!
As with most of the material from Youth Group’s forthcoming fifth record, lead single ‘Cusp’ was written in an abandoned laundromat in Huddersfield, a post-industrial town in the north of England. Having relocated to the UK with his young family, chief songwriter and singer/guitarist Toby Martin rented the space expecting to write a very English solo record. Instead what came out was a body of work that not only felt distinctly like a Youth Group album, but was largely concerned with Australia and missing home.
Even though the band had never officially called it a day, it had been almost ten years since Youth Group had released new music and Martin wasn’t sure if they would make another record. But hearing these songs pour out of him in the humble laundromat, that all changed. “It really wasn’t what I was expecting,” he says. “But once I had these tunes I was like, ‘Well maybe we should do another Youth Group record then’.”
The result is arguably Youth Group’s best work to date. Across Australian Halloween’s ten carefully crafted tracks, the band manage to combine the carefree spiritedness of the earliest days of the band with the sophisticated songwriting and arrangement skills that they’ve gained from almost twenty years playing together.
Australian Halloween
Youth Group
Album out Friday 11 October through
Ivy League Records
Available to pre-order here
And they will play together again for East Coast Australian audiences this November! Tickets on sale now…
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