YOUTH GROUP
Casino Twillight Dogs
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· Get out your journals filled with dark, manic poetry – Youth Group is bringing back junior high self-obsession.
I have been called a woman-child on more than one occasion. I usually take this as a compliment. I am the only person in history who actually loved being a teenager – the angst, melodrama, self-absorption. I embraced it all and come graduation, the prospect of getting into a good university and finding a job utterly depressed me. I loved being able to change my personality with the change of my clothes, the ablity to both love and hate my parents at the same time and spend every single moment of the day pining over some random guy only to get my heart broken come 3 p.m.
With a tender heart and more journal-worthy entries than your average 13-year-old girl, Youth Group rage on in a gentle, anemic kind of way that is both endearing and completely embarrassing (if only because you can relate to their lyrics on some level). They capture that moment in time when you were completely self-obsessed, but had enough of a sense of humour not to be narcissistic. They sing songs about wasting summer days, making daisy chains and long for, well – longing. This album is for sleepless nights, sitting in your bedroom with the music turned up loud, heavy petting and dry humping. They even cover Alphaville’s "Forever Young" – a song I both rollerskated and slowdanced to on more than one occasion (random pop culture tidbit – the song was also featured on The O.C. R.I.P.).
I must say, I’m crushing pretty hard on Youth Group.
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