“There is unrestrained energy coursing through ‘Heavy Heavy’, the fourth album from Scottish trio Young Fathers. The numerous styles that fill their sonic smorgasbord – soul, pop, rock, hip-hop, noise – fit together neatly here like the pieces of a puzzle; the band never once sounding disjointed when one sound gives way to the next, often within the same track. In a similar vein to their previous m”
“Young Fathers are interview in Issue 157 of Loud And Quiet. Subscribe now to receive a copy with a free, exclusive Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs flexi disc, or buy the issue by itself here. Released into the heat swells of last summer, Young Fathers’ first new music in four years was a perfect point of re-entry. ‘Geronimo’ had braggadocio and submission in equal parts, hook-heavy and self-de”
“Scottish trio Young Fathers have spent the past decade fusing industrial bass with rap, soaring gospel choruses and thundering drums. Theirs is heavy music worn with a melodic lightness, a potent combination that won them the 2014 Mercury prize for their debut album, Dead. After 2018’s Cocoa Sugar, which produced some of the group’s most accessible work in the yearning single In My View, their fou”
“Young Fathers get up and get down on their fifth album Heavy Heavy”
“Defined by small acts of joyful resistance, the Edinburgh group’s fourth album is a celebration of music as shared and spontaneous practice.”
“The trio's most exciting studio album yet, so well worth the wait.”
