ALL MUSIC MAGAZINE UK/EUROPE SINGLE OF THE WEEK – PARIS YOUTH FOUNDATION – TWENTY TWO

 

 

 

Paris Youth Foundation’s debut album, How To Ruin Your Life is here and celebrated with new single:

TWENTY TWO

Paris Youth Foundation’s DEBUT ALBUM – How To Ruin Your Life Released on Friday 9th July 2021 Frictionless Music www.parisyouthfoundation.com

Masters of the late-night drama set to anthemic song; Paris Youth Foundation finally set their debut album free as the ten-track collection, How To Ruin Your Life is released on Fri 9 July 2021 on
Frictionless Music. Five years after their first song landed them on major festival line-ups and in record company limos, the main stage-ready five-piece from Liverpool unleash another cut of arms- aloft, introspective pop to mark the occasion, pulling focus to the emotive rush of Twenty Two.

Unrestrained and unrepentant in setting every missed heartbeat, wasted tear and moment of longing to layers of intricately-produced, dramatic indie, How To Ruin Your Life’s psychodrama is all
too real for singer and songwriter, Kev Potter. Taking fans single-by-single through a cataclysmic, complicated and drawn-out break-up, tracks like Late Night Lost Love and The Back Seat have set the scene for the album, uniting euphoria with the familiar tragedy of watched phones that never ring and the inability to say what needs to be said: goodbye.

 

 

Drawing that direct line between personal experience and the power of music, Twenty Two finds the band in familiar, hook-laden form with squalling guitars and neat riffs working in tandem to relay a story of reconciliation, a lost sense of time and the final flicker of lost love. Potter says of the track: “‘Twenty Two’ is a song about two people who see each other in a bar in the middle of the night and choose to remember the good times rather than concentrate on where it went wrong. It’s about two people falling back in love for the night and pining to be twenty-two
again. A time before it all ended in tears.”

Waiting in store on How To Ruin Your Life are more moments of high-drama and brittle moments of extreme vulnerability. More of the band’s run of impressive singles are present, including Home Is Where The Heart Is and Tired Of Loving You , yet the deft sequencing of tracks truly makes for an ‘indie opera’ that fades out with eye-watering depth and grace. The track titles speak for themselves in the context of Potter’s breakup narrative, as The Mess We Made gives way to Goodbye . The closing track rests on a pulsing, synthesised heartbeat, while Potter finds the right words at the moment when it feels like there’s nothing more to say.

 

 

Speaking on behalf of a band delighted to see the album meet it’s public, Potter explains: “This album is a text book on what not to do, on how not to break up, its a textbook on how to ruin your life

“It’s a story of two people breaking up in the 21st century, substituting common sense for missed calls and alcohol. It’s about living for Saturday night to lose yourself in nostalgia. Its about the cities
we live in, the songs that soundtrack our Saturday nights and the lies we tell ourselves.

“This album is our attempt to soundtrack your breakup. Its about realising that all the love songs and all the movies were lying and there’s no happy ending waiting for us. We par take in this toxic behaviour knowing full well it’s an endless cycle and we become reliant on it to fill the hole the relationship it has left behind.”

Paris Youth Foundation followed peers and heroes including Blossoms, Courteeners, Echo and The Bunnymen into Parr Street Studios, Liverpool to record How To Ruin Your Life, working with
producer, Rich Turvey to craft a body of work worthy of the wait. Unapologetically ambitious in their bid for ground already won by the mainstream alt-rock godheads of Catfish and The Bottlemen, The 1975 and Sam Fender, Paris Youth Foundation have enjoyed and developed a taste for packed UK tours since forming in 2016, gathering a devoted, hard-won following on their way.

 

 

Speaking on behalf of a band delighted to see the album meet it’s public, Potter explains: “This album is a text book on what not to do, on how not to break up, its a textbook on how to ruin your
life. “It’s a story of two people breaking up in the 21st century, substituting common sense for missed calls and alcohol. It’s about living for Saturday night to lose yourself in nostalgia. Its about the cities we live in, the songs that soundtrack our Saturday nights and the lies we tell ourselves.

“This album is our attempt to soundtrack your breakup. Its about realising that all the love songs and all the movies were lying and there’s no happy ending waiting for us. We partake in this toxic
behaviour knowing full well its an endless cycle and we become reliant on it to fill the hole the relationship it has left behind.”

Paris Youth Foundation followed peers and heroes including Blossoms, Courteeners, Echo and The Bunnymen into Parr Street Studios, Liverpool to record How To Ruin Your Life, working with
producer, Rich Turvey to craft a body of work worthy of the wait. Unapologetically ambitious in their bid for ground already won by the mainstream alt-rock godheads of Catfish and The Bottlemen, The 1975 and Sam Fender, Paris Youth Foundation have enjoyed and developed a taste for packed UK tours since forming in 2016, gathering a devoted, hard-won following on their way.

 

 

 

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