The Underground Youth (Fuzz Club) announce NEW ALBUM + share single

Manchester-born, Berlin-based group The Underground Youth are today announcing their eleventh studio album ‘Nostalgia’s Glass’ and sharing the lead single ‘I Thought I Understood’. A piece of breezy, jangling post-punk, the new single is an infectious preview of what’s to come on the new record, due out August 18 on Fuzz Club. The follow-up to 2021’s ‘The Falling’ is supported by a string of upcoming live shows, including Wide Awake, Manchester Psych Fest and a Berlin headliner on May 25.

The album pre-order is now open, please share: TUY.lnk.to/nostalgiasglass

Watch the ‘I Thought I Understood’ video, directed by Parker Love Bowling, here: https://youtu.be/nPpUIqzcvXc

Talking about the album news and single, band-founder Craig Dyer writes: “‘Nostalgia’s Glass’ looks back at the music of The Underground Youth, forming new songs in a style reminiscent of the band's past, whilst lyrically condemning the nostalgia that the album is itself guilty of. ’I Thought I Understood’ was the first track for the album that I wrote following the above mentioned objective to write about nostalgia, in this song's case an unhealthy obsession with the past.”

Expanding on the album’s themes, Dyer adds: “When faced with making the eleventh record of your musical projects career, you think long and hard about the direction you wish to take. Do you look at what is currently popular and aim to carve out a space for yourself in the modern music which you currently enjoy, or do you look back at the foundations upon which your band has built its name and fanbase? This nostalgic sense of looking over one's shoulder to the past ended up influencing both the musical style of this new record and the subject matter of each track.

The aim became to create a collection of songs that paid homage to our back catalogue, whilst implementing all that had been learnt along the way. I attempted to dissect not only the positive but the negative elements of nostalgia, primarily the romanticisation of the past, be it the politics of a country, the controversial legacies of film and musical icons or the sentimental idealisation of long dead toxic relationships

The Underground Youth was started in 2008 as the creative project of Craig Dyer. The band have released 10 albums and 4 EPs, over the years developing their unique sound, which has ranged from cinematic lo-fi psychedelia to a raw and noisy, albeit romantically melancholic, form of post-punk. Shrouded in a dark aesthetic and the imagery of various art film movements, The Underground Youth have established a devoted global following and cult fan base, continuously built upon by their extensive touring schedule through Europe, Asia and North America. Signed to independent record label Fuzz Club in 2012, The Underground Youth currently consists of Craig (Vocals/Guitar), Olya Dyer (Drums), Leonard Kaage (Guitar/Producer) and Samira Zahidi (Bass). The band relocated from Manchester to Berlin in 2016.

UPCOMING SHOWS

• 25/05 - Berlin, DE @ Frannz Club
• 27/05 - London, UK @ Wide Awake Festival
• 21/07 - Krásno, CZ @ Festival Podtvrzi
• 04/08 - Râsnov, RO @ Rockstadt Extreme Fest
• 02/09 - Manchester, UK @ Manchester Psych Fest
• 28/10 - Lausanne, CH @ Croc’ The Rock Festival