Young People

The new E.P. by Young People, Five Sunsets In Four Days sets the stage for what may be an excellent third album due out in January on Too Pure Records.

Utilizing only a few instruments, Young People play a slightly experimental rock, unafraid of a little dissonance, slightly odd song structures or hiccuping rhythms. The E.P. opens with "Hot Horse", a simple driving rock number that showcases their loose and reverberant live sound interrupted by silence, noise and dramatic vocals by Katie Eastburn who recalls both Bjork and Shannon Wright.

There are some thrilling sonic moments on this 6-track E.P. "Wild Boys of the Road" starts as a simple rock jam but is interrupted by a rhythmic buzz that sounds like a warning alarm at a nuclear power plant on the verge of meltdown. "Night Nurse", full of erratic staccato guitar hits and a simple bass, perfectly compliments Eastburn’s expert modulation between a whisper and a howl.

None of the new songs are online yet, but these older songs give you a good sense of what they are up to:

"Ne'er Do Well"
"El Paso"
"Ron Jeremy"
"Collection"