Sydney rockers Gang Of Youths have shared a new surprise EP called total serene.
Just last month, the Australian band returned with “the angel of 8th ave.” That track marked their first new music since 2017’s Go Farther In Lightness. Now, they’ve channeled that now anthemic sound on their three track EP. “The angel of 8th ave.” comes accompanied by “unison” and a cover of Elbow’s “asleep in the back.”
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“‘unison’ is a deeply important track for us that really signals where the music is headed on the new record,” frontman David Le’aupepe explains. “I conceived the song in Samoa, my ancestral homeland. Here we sample and introduce the work of David Fanshawe, who travelled to the Pacific Islands in the 1980s and recorded the most extensive library of Indigenous Pacific music anywhere in the world.”
Stream total serene below.
While “unison” sounds similar to Elbow, their cover of the band’s “asleep in the back” is pretty stunning, too.
“We love Elbow and we thought it was thematically relevant. It couldn’t have been anything other than ‘Asleep In The Back.'”
Upon its release, Le’aupepe told NME that “the angel of 8th ave.” is “about falling in love and finding a place in a new city with that person. It’s my story, but we wanted it to feel like a more broad spectrum of love and the two major cities that played a big part in mine and my wife’s life.”
According to Le’aupepe,” that track channels the sound of their previous album.
Lead photo courtesy of Amy Heycock.
