Manchester‘s psych post-punk mavericks THE UNDERGROUND YOUTH,
orchestrated by voice/face/songwriter Craig Dyer have canned their 12th LP.
They named it Décollage and will share it with the world on April 4th.
Pre-order details right here.
Dyer about the new album: “Décollage is the art of creating an image by ripping, tearing
away or removing pieces of an original existing work. My idea was to apply this technique to music. I built walls of static coated hip-hop drum samples, layers of Lee Hazlewood style string arrangements and Serge Gainsbourg inspired mellotron melodies, then I began tearing away at these beautiful, chaotic walls of noise, exposing a new sound for The Underground Youth.”
New album artwork
Dyer citing 60s singer/songwriter/producer Lee Hazlewood (who did countless duets
with super-glam-star Nancy Sinatra) and 60s/70s French controversial songsmith/producer Serge Gainsbourg as inspirations for a new TYU full length is enough to have your and mine attention, right away. Sounds amazingly cool.
And I’m pretty sure that Dyer listened a lot to The Cure‘s last year’s masterpiece
‘Songs Of A Lost World‘ before or during the writing of lead single YOU (The Feral
Human Thunderstorm) with its slo-mo, melancholic synths infused progression
and lament resonance. Entrancing effort.
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