Wednesday, April 12, 2006

All the Flowers Can’t be Wrong

Hailing from San Francisco, the band known as Young People bring a strange mixture of noise-rock, country twang, and dare I say...Broadway to their sophomore effort "War Prayers." On this album the band strings together tiny and eclectic bursts of style to form one and a half minute long opuses, all the while anchored by the simultaneously awkward and fascinatingly booming voice of Katie Eastburn.

These songs are all at once abrasive, theatrical, heartfelt, surprising, and playful. If you don’t like the first 30 seconds, stick around, it will change.

Ask the Dust
Dutch Oven
The Lord
The Night of the Hunter

–Popkoff

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