Young People

I first heard Young People on a college radio station in Chicago a couple of years ago. I don’t recall if the band was playing live in the studio or not. I just remember turning to my wife and commenting how the singer sounded like a really bad Erin McKeown. I then stumbled upon Young People later and became enamored with that same bad Erin McKeown voice. Sadly nothing new has emerged from the bi-coastal trio in the last few years.

The three members come from experimental music and dance backgrounds. When they first got together in L.A., they fully-intended to be a country band, but that schema was quickly reformatted when they realized that something else was coming out of them. That something was good. Still retaining some country flavor, there was a less-structured element that prevailed in their songs. Distorted dirge-like hymns and tumbling Appalachian ditties are the result.

Recommended Listening:

• Ne’er Do Well
• El Paso
• Ron Jeremy
• Collection

Update 01.30.06: According to the Too Pure website Young People has paired down to a duo and is ready to release some new material. “The first Too Pure release for this year is brought to you by new signing Young People. The six track EP Five Sunsets In Four Days is available from January 30 from good record stores and of course, our very own Too Pure Shop (which is obviously also a good record store)… The impending album All At Once is due for release in March.