The Young Republic: Live on WOXY
I adore The Young Republic. I gushed about them in my very first post on this blog. I even had a chance to interview them a couple of months ago, and I try and get a mention of them on here at any oppurtunity. This is mostly because I see them as the second coming of Belle & Sebastian. While I absolutely B&S, nothing they do seems to come close to their first two albums. The Young Republic to me feel as if they have picked off where those two albums left off. This isn’t to say they are a mere clone, as they do bring their own sound, it’s just a fair comparison. As for how they describe themselves, their website puts it the best:
When asked to describe our music, we generally say orchestral-folk-rock because that is the description that tested best with our sample audiences. If you look like the kind of kid who listens to Pavement we put indie in front of that description. We can’t really get to into detail about what we sound like because it would most likely be long winded and self-nullifying and our publicist told us just to stay quiet and show humility. We just enjoy playing music and are happy if you like it.
The Young Republic are made up of nine music students from Boston, who have already released several CDs, all while still getting on with their studying. That their sound is already so refined is all the more impressive. The reason for this post though is that they performed a set for WOXY back in May, which nobody seemed to blog about. WOXY themselves put their five song set up on their website as one long file, which I’ve split into the individual songs. At least I think I’ve done it properly. I’ve never tried any kind of editing like this before, so apologies if it’s all gone wrong. They all sound fine from a quick listen though.
The set itself sees them play a bunch of new songs, which all of which are rather good, particularly opener ‘If You Are A Salesman’. Also included is ‘Blue Skies’ from their latest release, ‘Modern Plays’, and all-too-country closer ‘Goodbye Town’ from earlier release, ‘Your Heart Belongs In Tennessee’. All of the songs are performed with record quality tightness, aside from the awesome conclusion to ‘Goodbye Town’, which seems to just turn into a very cool jamming session.
MP3 The Young Republic – If You Are A Salesman (expired)
MP3 The Young Republic – Autumn’s In The Trees (expired)
MP3 The Young Republic – Blue Skies (expired)
MP3 The Young Republic – Girl In A Tree (expired)
MP3 The Young Republic – Goodbye Town (expired)
The Young Republic: Website || Myspace || AFoR Interview || WOXY: Website
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