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News: Iconic indie giants Youth Group announce new album ‘Big Whoop’ for October and lead with the shimmering anthemic single ‘The Joke’ and tour dates.

Last year while supporting Underground Lovers and back touring after a five year hiatus, the iconic Youth Group released the single thrilling ‘Siberia’ (see my review here) as a portent…

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Track: The venerable Youth Group return with a new direction in the blazing single ‘Siberia’ as they continue live tour.

It’s been nearly five years since Youth Group blessed us with new material with their brilliant album ‘Australian Halloween’ (see my review here), and even that album broke a ten…

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Live Review plus Gallery: Underground Lovers with Youth Group, Corner Hotel, Melbourne, 27.07.2024

It is a rare and wondrous experience to see two of Australia’s most exciting and iconic bands (Underground Lovers and Youth Group) together at the legendary Corner Hotel on a…

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Live Review: Toby Martin, The Great Club Marrickville, 18.11.22

Friday night at The Great Club Marrickville marked the start of an east coast tour for Toby Martin, best known as lead singer of Sydney indie band Youth Group. If…

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Album Review: Youth Group’s Toby Martin’s solo album ‘I Felt the Valley Lifting’ is an uplifting amalgam of mystical realism and the minutiae of everyday life.

Toby Martin (Youth Group) has a distinctive angelic voice and astute ear for indelible melodies, but more than anything his new solo album ‘I Felt The Valley Lifting’ reveals in…

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Track: Toby Martin (Youth Group) unveils new haunting anthem ‘Linthwaite Houdini’ with hints of Yorkshire brass, and announces new solo album ‘I Felt The Valley Lifting’

Toby Martin is the enigmatic frontman for Sydney’s iconic Youth Group (whose last album ‘Australian Halloween’ was considered by me to be a highlight release of 2019), and he has…

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Feature: 2019 Favourites

The following are lists of my favourite releases of 2019. This is not a definitive list of the best of 2019: I would not be so presumptuous to think I…

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Album Review: Youth Group – Australian Halloween

Originating from the inner west of Sydney, Youth Group achieved a modicum of global attention for their exquisite cover of Alphaville’s ‘Forever Young’, a song so steeped in rosy-tinted nostalgia…

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