Bluegrass is a genre I am very much unfamiliar with and by this virtue after
thumbing through the press release, it is with tentative steps that this EP is
approached. Young People are a three piece that produce beautifully stripped
back expansive pieces that resonate with an intrinsic beauty that doesn’t sound
quite so pretentious as the sentence you have just read. ‘Hot Horse’ is a
thunderous opening of cyclic riff, pulsating high hat and cute bass licks set to
Katie Eastburn’s effortless half vocal. With the ability to swap instrument duties
across the EP, it is with an eclectic array of influences that the Young People
style shines through. The delicious sustain opening to ‘The Mountain’ with the
impatient drums hanging back with the littlest amount of restrain, this lazy amble
is the perfect accompaniment to the haze of a dull winters morning with
motivation lacking and rest and recuperation high on one’s agenda.

The LA three have more than a twang of Southern USA music strands seeping through the perforations of their sub three minute crafted gems. Mood captured on hand held tape recorders: production kept to a minimum on laptop, ‘Four Sunsets in Five Days’ is raw yet refined with cheeky lyrics borrowed from the likes of Mary Poppins. That said, this isn’t a novelty project of collegiate friends joking around. It simply is another thread of influence that adds to the rich layers of The Young People. ‘Wild Boys of the Road’ is a drunken stumble shin-dig affair with Jeff Rosenberg and Jarrett Silberman doubling up on the guitars to keep it spiky and woozy with the echoic cymbals.

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Review by James Ainsworth