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YOUNG KNIVES share new single ‘Cause & Effect’
New album Landfill out Jan 24th 2025 via Gadzook
UK headline tour dates on sale
Young Knives are today sharing new single ‘Cause & Effect‘, the latest new music to be taken from forthcoming album Landfill.
‘Cause & Effect’ follows the album’s lead single ‘Dissolution‘ a song that cast scuffed-up, scratchy guitars and tumbling piano motifs alongside lyrics aimed at dismantling the ego. It arrives just weeks ahead of Landfill‘s release, which has already drawn praise in UK press as being “gleefully surrealist” (Classic Pop) and “a gloriously idiosyncratic listen” (Uncut 8/10). ‘Cause & Effect’ is characteristically peculiar and discordant, the band creating a patchwork of murmuring synths, voice modulation and ringing guitars to consider their own reality.
Lead singer and guitarist Henry Dartnall says of the song: “The central idea behind the lyrics is a bit obscure: I became aware of a few problems with the concept of time that inspired the song. The main problem is that time seems to be kind of illusory. What I mean by that is that anything outside of the present moment is basically just a thought. And the present moment doesn’t seem to pass, ie. it is always the present moment. “Cause & Effect” is entirely a time-based concept: You do one thing and it makes another thing happen, in time. But if time is an illusion, then what is really happening? It also implies somehow that we can control the world, like we understand how our actions now effect our future.
Musically the track is basically middle-aged white men rapping. At no point in the process have we questioned whether it’s OK for us to rap, it’s just a thing we did: We are pretty much past caring at this point, you just have to launch into these things and see what happens. I am a huge Hip Hop fan like any self-respecting middle aged white man should be so it made sense to give it a whizz. I wrote the lyrics in about 3 hours and recorded them
the same day.”
Pre-order new album Landfill HERE
Young Knives will be taking their live show on the road in the UK on top of the new album release. Tickets are on sale now here.
Young Knives 2025 UK headline tour dates
Tues 28th Jan – Joiners, Southampton, UK
Weds 29th Jan – Strange Brew, Bristol, UK
Thurs 30th Jan – Underworld, London, UK
Fri 31st Jan – The Bullingdon, Oxford, UK
Sat 1st Feb – Komedia, Brighton, UK – SOLD OUT
Tues 4th Feb – Hare & Hounds, Birmingham, UK
Weds 5th Feb – Deaf Institute, Manchester, UK
Thurs 6th Feb – Future Yard, Birkenhead, UK
Fri 7th Feb – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK
Sat 8th Feb – Hug & Pint, Glasgow, UK – SOLD OUT
My life is a soundtrack, i track my life through music, photography is my passion, my escape, my expression. Without both i have pieces missing, thankfully i’m blessed and get to combine both.
Born in Manchester, lived in Australia for 22 years where i was heavily involved in the Australian Music Industry, firstly in bands (Singer) and then managing bands (all original), I moved back to the UK, Wales specifically 10 years ago
