{"id":60177,"date":"2023-02-03T10:41:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T10:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/03\/young-fathers-heavy-heavy-review-anthemic-boundary-breaking-pop\/"},"modified":"2023-02-03T10:41:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T10:41:12","slug":"young-fathers-heavy-heavy-evaluate-anthemic-boundary-breaking-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/03\/young-fathers-heavy-heavy-evaluate-anthemic-boundary-breaking-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Fathers &#8211; &#8216;Heavy Heavy&#8217; evaluate: anthemic, boundary-breaking pop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>There is unrestrained vitality coursing by way of \u2018Heavy Heavy\u2019, the fourth album from Scottish trio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/young-fathers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Young Fathers<\/a>. The quite a few kinds that fill their sonic smorgasbord \u2013 soul, pop, rock, hip-hop, noise \u2013 match collectively neatly right here just like the items of a puzzle; the band by no means as soon as sounding disjointed when one sound offers strategy to the subsequent, typically throughout the identical monitor. In an analogous vein to their earlier materials, the listener is rapidly swept alongside on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/tag\/mercury-prize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercury Prize<\/a>-winning band\u2019s newest darkish and dense pop journey that achieves what many artists in the end aspire to: creating after which honing a sound solely of their very own making.<\/p>\n<p>Ambiguous lyrics reminiscent of \u201c<i>fill these boots to feel my soul and say, \u2018Buy more drugs to feel that love again\u2019 \/ Kill them slow, they reap I sow, amen<\/i>\u201d fill the file\u2019s frenetic opener \u2018Rice\u2019, and in reality confer with the goldminers who&#8217;re destroying pure sources in Africa and the people who find themselves compelled into this type of labour. It\u2019s a mark of the band\u2019s robust songwriting nous that such politicised lyrics are subtly imbued throughout a venture that also manages to be equal elements anthemic and infectious.<\/p>\n<p>Dizzying songs like \u2018I Saw\u2019, which options skittish drums and heavy bass, flip traces so simple as \u201c<em>brush your teeth, wash your face, run away<\/em>\u201d into hypnotising mantras, whereas pleading chants of \u201c<em>please<\/em>\u201d on the gorgeous, reverb-soaked \u2018Geronimo\u2019 are stretched till it seems like a caught vinyl skipping.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"uPyC0JUfZrU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Young Fathers - &#039;I Saw&#039; (Official Video)\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uPyC0JUfZrU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The pacing of this 10-track file brings a welcome sense of cohesion. \u2018Tell Somebody\u2019, an initially softer and melancholic monitor, is deftly positioned between the fiery \u2018Drum\u2019 and the aforementioned \u2018Geronimo\u2019. Then there\u2019s the pensive \u2018Ululation\u2019 \u2013 a surreal music in its personal proper that steadily ascends in direction of euphoric heights \u2013 which serves as a obligatory palate cleanser amid the pop-punk-rap hybrid the band have made their very own since their 2011 mixtape debut \u2018Tape One\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Heavy Heavy\u2019 is a passionate, soulful and sometimes mesmerising work that can stick round gone the primary pay attention. Succinct and underpinned by a catchy melodic construction, it continues Young Fathers\u2019 peerless run of singular albums and additional cements them as one of many extra distinctive acts to exist at present. As epitomised by the euphoria they evoke with the chord and tempo shifts heard on the album\u2019s nearer \u2018Be Your Lady\u2019, there merely is nobody else like Young Fathers.<\/p>\n<h3>Details<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3389937\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ZEN285_PACKSHOT_3000-1.jpg\" alt=\"Young Fathers - \u2018Heavy Heavy\u2019 Artwork\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ZEN285_PACKSHOT_3000-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ZEN285_PACKSHOT_3000-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ZEN285_PACKSHOT_3000-1-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ZEN285_PACKSHOT_3000-1-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ZEN285_PACKSHOT_3000-1-696x696.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Release date:\u00a0<\/strong>February 3<\/p>\n<p><strong>Record label:\u00a0<\/strong>Ninja Tune<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '2300206660218433');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] There is unrestrained vitality coursing by way of \u2018Heavy Heavy\u2019, the fourth album from Scottish trio Young Fathers. The quite a few kinds that fill their sonic smorgasbord \u2013 soul, pop, rock, hip-hop, noise \u2013 match collectively neatly right here just like the items of a puzzle; the band by no means as soon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-60177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}