Blue Youth

Blue Youth is a grungy noise-rock band from Regina, Saskatchewan (Canada).

Of course Metz immediatly comes to mind but Blue Youth is more 

subtle and melodic in many ways than their big brothers from Toronto.

 

  Their first EP, released in 2017, is already a full program:

The Power, The Screw, The Enemy, The Past, The End

5 chapters for 5 songs of high energy and emotions.

To be honest I discovered the EP after the LP and I am not sure

 I would have liked it, the vocals are way too melodic... so much

 that we're almost in a mainstream rock song sometimes (The Past). 

 

 But here we come to their masterpiece, The Dead Forever LP out on a 

bunch of labels (Santapogue Media, Grind Central Records, Suspended Soul Tapes And Records, Zegema Beach Records) in 2018. 

The energy is at its highest here, the bass is killing it while the drums 

never stop hammering your face... and the vocals!! while still being quite melodic, 

are, this time, perfectly balanced and adapted to the songs, 

jumping from a powerful singing to a desperate screaming. 

This record really put me on my ass the first time I listened to it, this is REALLY good!

 

With tracks from 2 to 4 minutes long, the album never gets boring, it goes up, down, 

lets you take a well deserved break from time to time (the perfect grunge ballad Pause For Death), but it's always extremely catchy and even manages to surprise with a sad 
and beautiful piano intro on (The Worst Of It Is) You.

With Blue Youth we're always in the emo-side of noise-rock if I can say that,
and yes this is not something I am so much into or you will see a lot on this blog,
but damn it's good sometimes. But we're never far from the angry modern hardcore
side either, Succubus got a clear Refused vibe for example.

Blue Youth released a new EP last june on Zegema Beach Records 
and Grind Central Records. Two songs of mostly screamed noise rock 
which, to be honest, didn't completely convince me. I don't know, the songs are not bad,
far from that, but it's not as catchy as what I got used to on Dead Forever... 
That I will put on repeat until I see what comes next!

 You can listen to Blue Youth on Rien à Faire #6.

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