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Gang of Youths today announce their biggest tour of the UK, including Londons O2 Academy Brixton to launch their upcoming album angel in realtime which is out on February 25th through Warner Records.
Gang of Youths say, the album is about the life and legacy of Daves father, indigenous identity, death, grief and God. And also the Angel, Islington.
Despite and indeed because of frontman Dave Leaupepes fathers absence, his influence permeates every talking point that the album offers. At times its solely focused upon the precise, personal experiences of loss: the dichotomy of intensity and peace that comes as someone passes through their final days; the overwhelming feeling in the wake of their death that life will never be the same, even if the rest of the world at large remains utterly unchanged.
Following their recent singles, the angel of 8th ave. , telling of falling in love in a new city and making a home in another, and the man himself, a song created around a sample recording from the island of Mangaia in the Cook Islands that is about living without the guiding hand of your own father, today they release tend the garden.
Although the album is eclectic influences range from American minimalism and contemporary classical, to drawing upon the legacy of Britains alternative/indie scenes, from drum n bass to the most transcendent moments of Britpop its equally rooted in Leaupepes Samoan heritage, with the majority of tracks featuring samples from David Fanshawes recordings of indigenous music from the Polynesian islands and the wider South Pacific. angel in realtime also features contributions from a cast of talented Pasifika and Māori vocalists and instrumentalists.
Leaupepe says, I hope the record stands as a monument to the man my father was and remains long after Im gone myself. He deserved it.
angel in realtime will be released on digital, double white vinyl and CD and is now available to pre-order. Fans who pre-order the album will receive instant downloads of tend the garden, the man himself, unison and the angel of 8th ave.. HMV and select independent stores will offer a special edition of the vinyl which feature an alternate cover.
Gang of Youths are: Dave Leaupepe (vocals, guitar), Max Dunn (bass), Jung Kim (guitar, keyboards), Donnie Borzestowski (drums) and Tom Hobden (keyboards, guitar, violin).
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