Youthmovies

Hailing from Oxford, Youthmovies are a convergence of music styles, often within the same track.  They make what could be considered ‘prog-pop’, an adventurous blend of the intense time signatures of bands like Cap ’n Jazz, backed with epic orchestrations whilst doing those Radiohead and Battles genre flips.  Youthmovies also have a penchant for party bands like Q and Not U & Les Savy Fav, but all the while retaining an element of storytelling that conjures up a myriad of imagery.

Aside from them being one the UK’s most interesting & musically unpredictable independent bands, they are also one of the most hardworking.  Current buzz band Foals, was started by the band's frontman Andrew Mears, as a side-project, before he left to concentrate on what he loved the most from a creative stance.  Members of the band also run Try Harder Records which released the aforementioned Foals debut, as well as singles and albums by the likes of Blood Red Shoes, Jonquil, and even released a Youthmovies/ Adam Gnade collaboration (Honey Slides EP).

They are regularly involved in one-off live film soundtrack and art events, have been Saul Williams's backing band (at the Carling festival) and thus far have various releases, most notably the mini album (Hurrah! Another year, surely this one will be better than the last, the inexorable march of progress will lead us all to happiness) on Fierce Panda records.

All this made them a real ‘band’s band’, even influencing ¡Forward Russia! to become what they are today.  Whiskas from the band said, “We basically formed out of me & Rob following Youthmovies around the North of England.  We spent all the train journeys taking everything in and planning our next move, which would be ¡Forward, Russia! For a long time a few years ago, Youthmovies were heads above anything happening in the UK - and for me, they still are.”

Good Nature is the sound of five hungry souls realising all their potential in a blinding flourish of compositional extravagance and exemplary musicianship.