Lust For Youth announce International LP on Sacred Bones, suggest sending gift baskets if you want some tour dates as well

Lust For Youth announce International LP on Sacred Bones, suggest sending gift baskets if you want some tour dates as well

A lot of people are into traveling, and justifiably so; provided you have the means to do something about it, who wants to spend their entire life driving on the same roads, seeing the same landmarks, and enduring an awkward familiarity with the 7-11 cashier who’s remembered your affinity for cherry Slurpees and 1/4-lb. Big Bites since you were a wee one? For my part, it’s contributed to a move roughly 3000 miles away and a likely perpetual desire for international travel, but with an important caveat: so long as the travel’s not work-related! Adult responsibility has the capacity to ruin anything. Jumping across the needless twin beds of your hotel room suddenly becomes a desperate attempt at salvaging fun.

The Copenhagen-based Lust For Youth know what I’m talking about. Their new album International, set for release on June 10 via Sacred Bones, concerns itself with the “impossibility of living a regular life” while touring and traveling, according to live collaborator and newfound official member Loke Rahbek. What’s more, it seems their expeditions might’ve rubbed off creatively, because the music represents a striking throwback to a combination of British new wave bands — Depeche Mode, at least, being one of them.

It’s not quite a wholesale change in style from their last album, but it is a considerable departure from the noisy synth meanderings of early LFY. The addition of Rahbek and producer/guitarist Malthe Fisher to this otherwise project of Hannes Norrvide has corresponded with a clear increase in the production value, while Norrvide’s vocals still sound identifiable and weary. But the hooks! Those are seemingly new.

Here’s the opening track:

International tracklisting:

01. Epoetin Alfa
02. Illume
03. Ultras
04. New Boys
05. Lungomare
06. Armida
07. After Touch
08. Basorexia
09. Running
10. International

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