New Entry: Yung Share New Single "Friends On Ice"

Danish indie rock band Yung have shared their new single "Friends On Ice". 

The song is taken from their upcoming second full-length album 'Ongoing Dispute', set to arrive on January 22 via PNKSLM Recordings. Pre-order your copy here.

Take a listen below.

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Yung Announce New LP 'Ongoing Dispute', Stream "Such A Man"

Danish indie rock band Yung have announced the release of their second full-length album 'Ongoing Dispute'.

The follow-up to 2016's debut A Youthful Dream, was recorded over two sessions at Dreamland Studio and produced by the band’s regular sound tech Neil Robert Young. It will be out on January 22 via PNKSLM Recordings. Pre-order your copy here.

Yung have taken the long road to this second full-length. Accordingly, they took some time to gather themselves. “We were pretty worn down from a lot of touring,” says bassist Tobias Guldborg Tarp, “and there was a lot of banging our heads against the wall when it came to trying to write new songs. We had to step back and think about what we wanted to do as a band, and whether it even made sense to continue.” It was far from plain sailing once they eventually did regroup, towards the end of 2016, for more writing sessions; with frontman Mikkel Holm Silkjær previously the primary songwriter, coming up with tracks that accommodated the polarised tastes of the individual members was a challenge. Guitarist Emil Zethsen takes his melodic cues from Prince and eighties pop; at the other end of the spectrum, drummer Frederik Nybo Veile is an fan of the much heavier likes of Converge, Helmet and Unsane. “It was a struggle,” recalls Zethsen. “The four of us rarely agree on anything.”

Ongoing Dispute is an ode to perseverance, collaboration and triumph over adversity. It represents the dawning of a new era for the band, the one that A Youthful Dream should have, and the title, says Guldborg Tarp, perfectly encapsulates the dynamic that has driven Yung forwards, out from under that black cloud. “Ultimately, that’s what the writing of this record was - an ongoing dispute. We come in to write and we’re referencing completely different bands, but every time we wrap up a song, we’re excited about it. It reflects the lyrical side of the record, too; it’s like the last few years of coping with the world have been an ongoing dispute for us!”

About their new single, they explained: ‘Such A Man’ came together in about an hour. While effortless songwriting seems to be a staple tale of rock history, ‘Such A Man’ is pretty much our only example of this in the case of writing ‘Ungoing Dispute’. Other than being swiftly done, ‘Such A Man’ was a songwriting potluck of sorts, largely orchestrated by Frederik. 

While the band was putting together the song, Mikkel was frantically roaming the corridors outside our rehearsal space working out the lyrics: “A recent personal experience had sparked a train of reflection on manhood, fuelling the writing process and making its way into the song. Growing up, masculinity was portrayed to me as something very one-sided. The experience referenced in the lyrics helped me realise a pattern in coping with loss and pain in the archetypical man. I think from a subconscious point of view I needed to address that in order to fully reevaluate my childhood image of manliness.”

Check out the album's tracklist and listen to their new single "Such A Man" below.

Ongoing Dispute Tracklist:

01. Autobiography

02. Lust And Learning

03. Progress

04. Dismantled

05. Above Water

06. Such A Man

07. Hose It Off

08. Unresolver

09. Friends On Ice

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Watch: Yung Share Music Video For "Commercial"

Danish indie rock band Yung have shared the video for their latest single "Commercial" .

The song is taken from their debut full length album 'A Youthful Dream', released back in June via Fat Possum Records. Get it here.

The video was made by Veronika Maria Bach and Signe Høi. Take a look below.

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Yung Announce Debut LP 'A Youthful Dream', Share New Single "Pills"

Danish indie rock band Yung have announced they will release their debut full length album titled 'A Youthful Dream' on June 10 via Fat Possum Records.

The band have shared the album's first single "Pills". 

About the track frontman Mikkel Holm Silkjær told The Fader: "Pills was one of the first songs I wrote for this album, and I've used the song as a sort of navigation point for what I wanted the rest of the record to sound and feel like. Thematically, the lyrics speak for themselves. People think the key to sanity in modern day society is pills."

Pre-order the album here and listen to 'Pills' below.

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Watch: Yung Release Music Video For "God"

Danish indie rock band Yung have released the video for their latest single "God".

From theire recent EP 'These Thoughts Are Like Mandatory Chores', released last month (September 18) via . Buy it here.

The video was filmed and edited by Andreas Tang and Veronika Maria Bach. Take a look below.

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