but the dude's voice pisses me rrrrrrrrrrrright off

Good Nature hasn't arrived yet though a problem with distribution. :(

is ace, its really growing on me and can usualy be found in my CD changer ever since it came out. So far its one of my fav albums of the year along with Atlas Sound.

but thats just me.

second listen: hmmmmmmmm....

third listen: WOW.

So yeah, take a punt and be prepared to invest some time in it.

i could have told you that 4 or 5 months ago though, just from the quality of songs they've been playing live for the last year. i must have seen the new album set live about 3 or 4 times, and it bores me to tears. the album is very uninteresting

a DiS writer reviewed it here instead:-
http://www.contactmusic.com/new/home.nsf/albumreview/youthmoviesx12x03x08

they just sound like an emo band...

they've gotten on sites, espically DiS, you'd be forgiven for thinking they were the second coming espically cos of their very vocal fans. For me though, v.unmemoriable deliberatly obtuse music. Just bugged the crap outta me.
Oh well.

Ignore the haterz

because we loved it enough to spend money releasing it, surely that's statement enough of our opinion of it?

It's messy, amazingly STILL sounds like their other material in that it must have been recorded in a tin shack and although most songs contain at least one good 'bit' the vast majority of the music surrounding it is an incoherent mish-mash with no real thread of ideas running through it.

Moreover, the music is constrained by the fact that the bassist and second guitarist clearly aren't on the same level as the person writing the songs. If they were, songs wouldn't sound 'put together' like some sort of indie jigsaw made up of minute-long parts and time signatures. And that's before I even get to how it's my personal belief that any band featuring a bassist who just plays roots and fifths can SUCK THE JUICE from my 10-inch Alabama trouser snake. It is 2008, I shouldn't still having to be putting up with that shit. These people should have some fucking respect for themselves.

Additionally, the beginning of the album is 3 minutes of ambient noise and the end of the album is a sudden stop. Both of which,, for me, are crimes worse than genocide.

Also: Let us hunt and kill the trumpet player.

So, in conclusion: Youthmovie is a band that I am forever trying to like, but they just won't fucking let me. So fuck 'em. I don't need them! I'll find a band that'll treat me right. A band where every member is a consumate musical artist. Where it doesn't matter that a song has 90 time changes in it and is in several different keys at once, because the fundemental idea behind each song is right at the front where you can hear it. A band that has a trumpet player that it knows how to use and a producer that knows what one of those is.

If you hear of a band like this, call me! And yes, I already own a lot of Miles Davis, but thanks anyway.