Feverish with reinvention,
Young Fathers have carved a career for themselves defined by being distinctly individual. Beating to the sound of their own drum from the very beginning, it’s hard to think of any band that even comes close to sounding like them - and representing that unbreakable desire for originality and the new.
‘
Heavy Heavy’, the trio’s fourth album, captures that with incredible results - an album of tantalising energy that shows just how vital they sit in British music, while sounding like their most direct and impactful era to date. Taking a journey through fizzing punk potency (‘
Rice’ and the swaggering ‘
I Saw’), M83-esque cinematic release (‘
Tell Somebody’), whirlpools of sound and vigour (‘
Holy Moly’ and ‘
Drum’) and call-and-response collective calls (‘
Sink Or Swim’) - it’s an album focused on taking you somewhere. Picking listeners by the collar and pulling them into new territories that may on paper sound so distant and disparate but together sound extraordinary.
