YOUTHMOVIES

YMS are a math-rock band. By saying this, I mean they’re less keen on melodies and more occupied with complex signatures and shifting moods. There are some wonderful places (like coda in “A Little Late”) that are easy to whistle along, but there are also wild tracks like “Recovery Speak” (insane Zorn-like beginning and almost post-rocky down-tempo coda). Comparable to late OCEANSIZE, early DREDG and early THE MARS VOLTA, YMS nevertheless follow their own path. It’s a hard fish to swallow, but it’s worthy of it. I would hardly call this album favourite, but it has its moments, and some of them are extremely wonderful. Recommended for math-rockers and Modern proggers, a desirable addition to your collections!

Youthmovies have been one of my recent discoveries that I just can't stop listening to. These guys are making one of the most interesting and intense form of progressive rock in these resent years by mixing the complexity of math rock, the emotion and atmospheres of post-rock and the accessibility and ear-friendliness of alternative rock.

On this album all of the said genres are mixed, twisted and smashed together to form a style and a sound all of their own. While the title of the album is quite long (it's certainly the longest title I've ever seen) the music here is rather short (after all, this is a mini-album), but every minute is jam-packed with music. The combination of an easy listening genre with a not-so-accessible one leads to a frantic and chaotic listening, but one of the great things about them is, actually, that strange contrast in their sound. One minute you're trying to count how many times they change time signatures and in the next you'll be singing along to Andrew Mears' vocals (which sound not to far from Matt Bellamy from Muse). A perfect example of this can be heard in the song "A Little Late He Staggered Through the Door and Into Her Eyes". The post-rock bits are also very enjoyable and give the music some well needed emotional weight to it along with the vocals. These guys even throw in a jazz freak out in one of their songs that will make any rock fan headbang to the sound of a saxophone like never before!

All of these guys are great at playing their instruments. They know when to go complex for the sake of being complex and also know when to make some great emotional moments (and they manage to fit these two characteristics in all of their songs). This is, in my opinion, a prime example on the perfect balance between complexity and emotion and also THE prime example of modern progressive rock in the same vein as Oceansize, Pure Reason Revolution, Dredg, Mew, Amplifier, Muse and the likes.

If you're a fan of those previously mentioned bands, but feel that they aren't complex enough or that they're simply too alternative for your taste then I highly recommend Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies. You won't be disappointed.

Youthmovies/Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies has a better impact already (than believed or taken in account), by an enormous desire of music, composition, experimental extortion or different hard towards difficult values - something that makes definitely an improvement from the typical garage, grunge or gorge attitude that might interfere, out of hazardous or streaking vibrations inside the music and the adventurous break-out style. Listening to the general samples, but mostly to this prime album, you get a twisted eclecticism, by reasons which place them in an angry state of music and play, but within a particular drop of exact style which isn't redundant or recalcitrant to any limpid or mindless movements. Therefore, if generally you can crush the essence of Youthmovie into math rock, post-rock and art energy rock, the surprise of diversity, scrupulosity or shredding verbosity is the clearest quality.

Remarked among the best alternative artistic rock expressions (in a way to actually upset the facts of bands like Mars Volta, Muse or so being the best around and the unreachable in-like), Youthmovie is nevertheless an interesting choice by also a composition struggle of noise, melody and rock energy, a demeaning beat experience with details and concepts, a hard decibel creativity with an entire psyched taste put aside, an incongruent raw progressive blanch, recommending eclectic, emotional or frighteningly ecstatic nuances instead of a serious down-break and an irrelevant rapture of power and engulfment. Yes, Youthmovie is quite interesting for a modern prog, alternative math, post-rock related or art ravish cumuli of valors and impressions.

Checking up this precise album, we see influences crashing: post-rock music from its name (sounds Silver Mt. Zion-ish) to its fragments of atmosphere or noise, math violence from the rock energy to the scalped broken chords of infinite adventure and plunged depth (I won't say their most crashing moments are out of insanity, since the artistic level can be found; maybe just not that optimal received), art rock by many clean cuts which open expression, dark fantasy or an underground irony (musically speaking, the irony can't be felt; but, by clenches going on resounds, there's a bit of moody feeling that Youthmovie creates, not crashes, a template of fantastic sounds). In the same time, some values can't be trusted that simple. Going back, the album isn't numb or simply experimental for post-rock, bears a large orientation of melody and vocal appeal which math rock may syringe in a very rare fashion, there's nothing purely alternative to count, and art rock gets more eclectic rewards than properly felt or resided. It's a monster of a creation, in an effort to shiver every drop of energy and beat. It's an album of difficult manners, in modern accomplished melts of senses, music, composition and band blood tight interpretations.

A worthy, curios, unusual, mis-conventional album. The band is around the more difficult, raw or bleeding ones belonging to the math rock or alternative art prog. But it also has, indeed, an eclecticism. Whether stubborn or significant.