Following the release of the album’s lead single ‘Dissolution,’ a track featuring scuffed-up guitars, tumbling piano, and lyrics aimed at dismantling the ego, Young Knives have shared a new song, ‘Cause & Effect,’ from their upcoming album Landfill.
Due out just over a week, Landfill has already garnered praise from UK critics, being described as “gleefully surrealist” (Classic Pop) and “a gloriously idiosyncratic listen” (Uncut). ‘Cause & Effect’ maintains this unique and unconventional style, with the band weaving together murmuring synths, voice modulation, and ringing guitars to explore their reality in a characteristically peculiar and discordant manner.
Of the track, lead singer and guitarist, Henry Dartnall states,
The central idea behind the lyrics is obscure: I became aware of a few problems with the concept of time that inspired the song. The main problem is that time seems to be kind of illusory. What I mean by that is that anything outside of the present moment is basically just a thought. And the present moment doesn’t seem to pass, ie. it is always the present moment. “Cause & Effect” is entirely a time-based concept: You do one thing and it makes another thing happen, in time. But if time is an illusion, then what is really happening? It also implies somehow that we can control the world, like we understand how our actions now affect our future.
Musically the track is basically middle-aged white men rapping. At no point in the process have we questioned whether it’s OK for us to rap, it’s just a thing we did: We are pretty much past caring at this point, you just have to launch into these things and see what happens. I am a huge Hip Hop fan like any self-respecting middle-aged white man should be so it made sense to give it a whizz. I wrote the lyrics in about 3 hours and recorded them the same day.
Young Knives will be taking Landfill on the road this month. Tickets are available now.
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