Yung - The Child

Danish punk is having a moment, no doubt. But beyond the ferocity and the menace, there’s a great deal of beauty behind Iceage’s ugly strides, or Lower’s default snarl. Not to box them in, Yung have always painted with different shades to their peers. But new song ‘The Child’ is the first time they’ve married their escapist trade with true beauty.

It came about when frontman Mikkel Holm Silkjær was working on a crop farm, making songs in his downtime because there was nothing else to do. “When you start playing music you do it for the sake of writing music but when you’re signed to a label there’s commercial pressure,” he says, somewhat bleakly adding: “There are good things and bad things about that. One of the good things certainly is that you have to reinvent yourself within or beyond your music, which I tried to do.” ‘The Child’, in this case, emerged out of a strange strife, the compromise between making music for the sake of it and trying to stand out in a crowd. But through the song’s simple, pattered piano and strung-out sense of adventure, Yung have taken an exciting next step.