The Underground Youth return with their twelfth studio album, Décollage, arriving on April 4th, 20025 through Fuzz Club. You (The Feral Human Thunderstorm) is the opening track and first single from the full length.
The band's one Craig Dyer describes the song: “‘You (The Feral Human Thunderstorm)’ kicks open the doors of the new record. As the opening track it encompasses the mood of the whole album, walls of crackling hip-hop drums, layers of strings and background noise, repeating and building, old tape chewing its way around the reel. Lyrically it’s something of a romantic country ballad, but dragged through an entirely different and new sound for The Underground Youth.”
Dyer continues to provide insight on the upcoming record: “‘Décollage is the art of creating an image by ripping, tearing away or removing pieces of an original existing work’. My idea was to apply this technique to music. I built walls of static coated hip-hop drum samples, layers of Lee Hazlewood style string arrangements and Serge Gainsbourg inspired mellotron melodies, then I began tearing away at these beautiful, chaotic walls of noise.”
According to Dyer, the album is “a trip-hop infused soundtrack to a collection of lyrics dealing with adoration, ancestry, originality, hallucinations of revolution and a hope that something better can be born from the ashes of the horror that exists in our world.”
ZR