Lord Youth is the recording moniker of Micah Blaichman from Queens, New York, which began in a pigeon-infested attic in Copenhagen. We first wrote about the project back in 2017, describing the sound as “too cinematic for bedroom pop and too gloomy for garage rock, a murky, midnight noir to soundtrack your black and white dreams.” Blaichman is back with a new Lord Youth release, a double A-side single, Do You Having Anything To Add?/Hungry Ghost.
With its lazy drum beat emerging through lonely ambience, ‘Do You Have Anything to Add?’ opens restrained and casual, though a certain energy glows like the embers of a forgotten fire. By the first chorus, this flickers into something more conspicuous, with Blaichman’s vocals joined by those of Ella Rae Peck to possess more assertion and bite. Hints of a more playful side appear across the second verse, conjuring the likes of Nap Eyes, though the track never shakes its leisurely aesthetic, as though a blanket has been thrown over it, masking the true emotions within.
I was dreaming when I wrote this
That’s no excuse
And I don’t want to play remember when
Cos’ sometimes the facts just obscure the truth
Especially when the truth is so badDo you have anything to add?
Make our music dreamy and sad.
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Raising the tempo, ‘Hungry Ghosts’ is the more upbeat of the two, though there is still an atmospheric stillness in the spaces between the notes. The song almost has something of a western feel, indie rock dragged through some dusty frontier town in search of water, hallucinating a spectral presence while the mind still burns with something, or someone, left far behind.
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Do You Have Anything To Add?/Hungry Ghost is out now via BB Island and Soul Step Records and you can get it from Bandcamp.