If you had to pick a freakscene, alternative poet / folk singer
and attach their work to the output of a rumbling, ethereal guitar
band then youd be hard pushed to better this collaboration
between Oxfords Youthmovies and American Adam Gnade. From
Its Five OClock In America to the metallic
oscillations of Were Unknowing In The Crosshairs..,
Gnade sounds like a troubled stranger stood on a street corner
murmuring missives from rough scribblings in a well worn notebook.
Much of the EP was fabricated and improvised on the road, but
for a band as spontaneous as Youthmovies, its (probably)
just another day at the office.
The tracks are particularly grim and haunting but in true style,
in the most beautiful of ways. Gnades delivery comes across
as nothing more than a young man reading with little emotion from
a narrative often made up of memories and descriptions. But somehow
it all comes together even if the words become a little lost in
the cycling of sounds and reverse beats.
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