YUNG: These Thoughts Are Like Mandatory Chores

Format: 12"
Genre: Rock
Label: Tough Love
Release Date: 26.09.2015
Order Number: CG88312

Led by 21-year-old frontman and songwriter Mikkel Holm Silkj?r, the group hails from Aarhus, Denmark. On this EP they show themselves to be ambassadors of their country's increasingly vital underground music scene. Anthemic guitars, coarse feedback and driving rhythm, insistent to the point of impatience, show angst acting as a powerful fuel for self-expression, gasoline poured on a fire already fed by youthful energy. More than buzz, Silkj?r, along with bandmates Frederik Nybo Veilie (drums), Tobias Guldborg Tarp (bass) and Emil Zethsen (guitar), has built a cottage industry. He writes songs, handles the artwork for every release and even does much of the production himself. The resulting self-made music on "These Thoughts Are Like Mandatory Chores," raw, snarling corkscrews of feedback, find the Danish rockers branching off from the same family tree that birthed The Replacements and Cloud Nothings.