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It’s official, Younghusband rock. If you want a messy, splurge of noise with a few pop hooks underneath the blanket, they’ve got it. If you want built up anti-folk with enough vocals to make Bon Iver look lazy, they’ve got it. But most importantly they rock, they rock in that Weezer, we went to college in some anonymous part of America, I would have been grunge but I’m too clever to bother hating everyone kinda way.

They are very much from the slacker nineties school of writing a twee poppier than pop song, throw in some decent lyrics and then play it really loud through some filthy, broken equipment.

Euan Hinshelwood started the band as a way of embellishing his anti-folk solo project after previous outing The New Shapes had parted ways and as an extra-curricular add on to his role as guitarist for Emmy The Great; and it is his Elliot Smith-esque vocals that act as the hidden gem amongst the band’s impressive armoury. It has certainly been a while since a band has sounded this different between their recordings and live set. There is a laid back air to both, but that and the song titles are the only similarity. Both, however, are more than worth taking the time to listen to and in the band’s first nine months they have already released an EP through Culture Deluxe, recorded a 6music session with Marc Rileyand supported Eugene McGuiness. By now you have probably just missed the band on their 24-date tour supporting Emmy The Great but they will undoubtedly be propping up the bill at many a summer festival and I suggest you get your ass out and see them.