The Young Republic

Two and a half years after I originally wrote about on here, I finally got to see them live on Monday as they supported The Mountain Goats at ULU. Despite having a ton of Young Republic songs, it seems that the changes in the lineup have led to a new musical direction as they only played one song that I already know (the superb Modern Plays). The rest of the set was made up of far more country and folk influenced songs from their Idiot Grin EP, which isn’t really a bad thing. I’m just kind of disappointed I didn’t get to hear Girl From The Northern States. No matter though. The only other song I was familiar with was their cover for the night: ’s Isis. With a full band setup the song sounded superb, and while the recorded version below is rather more stripped down, it’s still a pretty damn good version of it.