{"id":1853,"date":"2020-09-25T16:25:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T15:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2020-09-25T16:25:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T15:25:20","slug":"young-knives-barbarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/25\/young-knives-barbarians\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Knives, Barbarians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just when you thought it was literally the end of civilisation, The Young Knives (or, more properly) Young Knives without the &#8220;<em>The<\/em>&#8221; any more have released a new album, <em>Barbarians<\/em>. And. It&#8217;s. Rather. Good. Indeed. Their last album was something like 7 years ago. It&#8217;s very very welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their earlier quirky and delightfully melodic songs &#8211; which still get a lot of play around these parts &#8211; have given way to some incredibly dark sounding tunes that are eerily menacing but equally amusing. Their description as &#8220;self-aware nihilistic miserabilists&#8221; is evident in their very odd, disturbing music videos which are certainly worth watching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working from home today and been playing their videos on Youtube in the background and it&#8217;s been fascinating to watch their trajectory from early songs like <em>Rollerskater <\/em>and <em>The Decision<\/em> to <em>Society for Cutting Up Men<\/em> on the new album. There&#8217;s no sense that they&#8217;ve ever settled on a formula and, if anything, seem to have gone out of their way to continually reinvent themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their online launch party is a thing of beauty and excellence in itself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Barbarians Launch Party\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SqPfL588BsE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought it was literally the end of civilisation, The Young Knives (or, more properly) Young Knives without the &#8220;The&#8221; any more have released a new album, Barbarians. And. It&#8217;s. Rather. Good. Indeed. Their last album was something like 7 years ago. It&#8217;s very very welcome. Their earlier quirky and delightfully melodic songs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1855,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions\/1855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}