Thisisthelast Review: Youthmovies – Good Nature
September 30th, 2008 . by Jilly
I think Jason’s taste for avant-garde metal has finally started to rub off on me. I have recently fallen in love with Youthmovies. They are an Oxford quintet, influenced by post-rock. After a series of EP’s, Good Nature is their first full-length album.
I am normally a sucker for britpop and indie folk, but it can kind of start to all sound the same after a while. I can’t praise Youthmovies enough for their inventiveness. Its been almost impossible for me to categorize their wide array of sounds. Its hard to digest in just one listen, everytime I play this album I notice something else beautiful that they’ve done.
Archive it Everywhere (mp3)
I love the soft, then heavy, then back to soft. This whole song is perfect.
“If there’s dust in the breeze and your alveoli,
Those cauliflower, as sea anenomes contract,
To make your visited breaths become narrow,
I’ll tap tap the barnacles of your back”
The song, Something for Ghosts, goes from soft to psychedelic, to a Broadway musical (I swear) and then to something that reminds me of Morrissey. I also really loved Cannula. It has acoustic guitars and strings, and yet at the same time has a middle eastern dance beat.
Here they are performing on Channel M Music…
Its Youthmovies’ willingness to experiment and shake things up that has given them the respect they deserve. This glorious cacophony is way ahead of its time.
