Kill the Young is tagged as: indie rock, rock, indie, british, alternative THREE brothers. From Congleton’s sticky, striking Northern-punkedup-streets. Brought up – like all good United fans - on a diet of Cantona, Coogan and Cobain. Which just about covers it all. Kicking around. Mucking around. Fucking around. Playing football. All the time. Missing meals. But mostly: Missing meals through Playing instruments. Put the youngest one on drums and in goal. The oldest up front and up front and on guitar. The middle one holding it together in midfield with bass and box-to-box stolid stamina. That analogy never really works. Let’s try it again. A statement as fizzy and fractious and energetically confrontationally endearing as the music the band produces. Sometimes. When they’re in Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins mode rather than their Magazine, New Order, QOTSA, Led Zep moments. If you want to know why they’re called KTY you’ll have to ask them about it. Because a mosaic is made of different coloured gems and a bassline can boost, bubble and blast with bile as much as a vocal line can soar, sour and scream, and as much as a drummer can drive, or dink one into the top corner. It’s about the hook, not the look; the power and the passion and the kicking out the jams, motherfuckers. It’s about doing things with melod... Read More About Kill the Young Biography... Send Kill the Young ringtones to your cell |
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