Electric Youth is tagged as: synthpop, valerie, synth pop, disco, hi-nrg Hometown: Toronto. The lineup: Bronwyn and Austin. The background: Electric Youth are named after an album by Debbie Gibson who, along with Tiffany, was the quintessential late-80s US bubblegum teen pop girl. A young couple from Canada, Bronwyn and Austin of Electric Youth are part of the same amorphous community of pop-obsessing bloggers and music-makers as the chillwave and witch house crew, but unlike, say, Teengirl Fantasy, they’re not using pop language and imagery as a front for a more avant-garde exploration of that territory – they ARE Debbie Gibson. Seriously, the songs on their MySpace don’t just sound like indie approximations of exuberant 80s teen-pop fluff, they could be tracks from that 1989 album. Actually, we said quintessential but we meant totemic. Because for Electric Youth, Gibson is emblematic of all the things they love about the mid-to-late 80s: television commercials, film soundtracks, MTV videos, certain sci-fi TV series such as V, Michael Crichton movies, the Brat Pack, and Madonna/Cyndi Lauper songs when they were quirky New Yorkers whose music was informed by new wave, disco and early electro. Gibson was the first living embodiment of all this stuff, the first to have it in her DNA, to suck it all in then spew it all out. Electri... Read More About Electric Youth Biography...  Send Electric Youth ringtones to your cell
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