ARTIST: Young Love
TITLE: Too Young To Fight
LABEL: Island
GENRE: Electronic
BITRATE: 239kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 38m total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-01-30
RIP DATE: 2006-12-03
Track List
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1. Discotech 3:54
2. Give Up 3:08
3. Closer To You 3:28
4. Too Young To Fight It 3:21
5. Nameless One 4:43
6. Find A New Way 2:52
7. Tell Me 3:29
8. Take It Or Leave It 3:03
9. Tragedy 2:57
10. Underneath The Night Sky 4:13
11. Close Your Eye 3:00
Release Notes:
What is Young Love? Just peek at the New York band's myspace page. You'll find
this brief but amusing overview:
"Los angeles good times tequila rock bands austin day cruiser van smoke machines
tour trafalgar hollywood oakwoods why are dudes wearing makeup everyone knows
everyone brooklyn night clubs whiskey white suits bright lights miami island
cutting rugs london finishing the record"
"That's the last two or three years of my life, with a bit of childhood thrown
in," says Dan Keyes, frontman and musical tour de force behind Young Love. Not
only does that word collage work as a history of the group, but it also serves
as a good primer on the band's sound, which can only be described as "now, but
different."
Strange but true: You may have heard these songs before. A couple of the tracks,
only available on the Internet, have filtered out into NYC's clubs over the past
few months. Stranger: if you really know Keyes, you may be surprised it's him
behind these songs.
It was only two years ago when the multi-talented musician was a member of
Recover, a buzzworthy young band from Austin, Texas. Their melodic post-punk
sound landed the group a major label deal, a dedicated nationwide fan base and
much critical acclaim. But Keyes had other things (or, actually, other songs) on
his mind.
"I love those guys, and I'm still close with them, but I was at a creative
crossroads," remembers Keyes. "I knew I had to change something about my life."
Fate intervened. During a birthday party, a New York friend of Keyes made the
musician an offer he couldn't refuse. "He said, 'I have a room free up here. Be
here in a week and a half.' And I had always wanted to move to New York, even as
a kid."
So Keyes left a town full of great musicians and good friends to move to a
strange and wonderful new place à to bus tables. "I moved up here with one bag
and my guitar," he says. "And I mean that literally." Fortunately, his bag
contained a few demos and rough sketches for songs, which would eventually serve
him well.
While doing time at a high-end midtown restaurant ("Catering to rich white
people that spoke to me like I didn't know English"), Keyes started thinking
more about those unfinished songs. They were good songs, but they hadn't fit in
with any of his previous bands. They were danceable, unpredictable, catchy and
even thematic. They were, in essence, the origins of what would become Young
Love.
"That band name actually hit me years ago," he says. "I knew if I had another
band, it would be called Young Love. It's not two words just randomly thrown
together. The name is an idea, and all of my songs reflect that."