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Young Fathers Live At The Wilderness Bureau

Raul Zahir De Leon — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 16:22:39 +0000

During a typical live performance, Edinburgh’s Young Fathers build a layered wall of voice and sound. But with most of their equipment stowed away, the band still managed to blow us away, filling Bandwidth’s Wilderness Bureau studio with only minimal accompaniment and textured harmonies.

Watch as the Scots perform a stripped down version of “Sirens,” a standout from their latest full-length, White Men Are Black Men Too. The group followed that with a gorgeous a cappella version of “Only Child.”

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Photos by Maggie Famiglietti

Six Pics: Young Fathers At Rock & Roll Hotel

Alex Schelldorf — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 15:36:22 +0000

While tens of thousands of tourists descended upon D.C. last weekend for some flower festival, elsewhere the District’s conventional and DIY venues were stacked to the brim. If you weren’t at 9:30 Club for Dan Deacon or The Ting Tings, you could’ve been at Damaged City Fest, or Paperhaus for Shark Week or Hole in the Sky for Two Inch Astronaut.

Capping off the weekend at Rock & Roll Hotel were Young Fathers, who took the stage as if it were their prey. The Mercury Prize-winning hip-hop group stormed through an hourlong set with an intensity and fury rarely seen outside of punk shows. They said nothing between songs and then walked off unapologetically after closer “I Heard,” leaving the crowd hungry for an encore that never came. The three vocalists and their drummer were all individually different, but somehow uniquely cohesive. Raw, but not quite unhinged.

The Scots are on tour celebrating their new record White Men Are Black Men Too, though their set was an even mix of their last few records and EPs. Openers Mas Ysa (who powered through a myriad of technical difficulties with humor and grace) and Bond St. District (which features venerable Baltimore rapper DDM), both played to a sparse but enthusiastic crowd before the room filled for the headliners.

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KEXP Presents: Young Fathers

Janice Headley — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 09:03:15 +0000

KEXP hosts hundreds of in-studio sessions a year, but it’s rare when our entire staff is blown away the way we were over the soulful Scottish trio Young Fathers. DJ Larry Rose, a longtime fan who conducted the interview, said the energy in the room when those three childhood friends combined their voices was intense: a mix of guttural yelps, sharply recited verses and powerfully soaring vocals. Our video team couldn’t stop raving about Young Fathers’ passionate, energetic performance.

The trio’s touring drummer had thrashed his cymbal so thoroughly, it was barely attached to the stand anymore. Even DJ Cheryl Waters was brought to awestruck expletives by the end of Young Fathers’ set. We’re thrilled to share this performance of “Get Up,” from a session that had KEXP staffers talking for days.

Watch the entire set at KEXP’s YouTube Channel.