#7 Album of 2014, Youth Culture Forever by PAWS

Now we're finally getting to the albums that really touched my soul in 2014... all the albums from this point forward are keepers.  I just fired up this album for a listen while I write up this brief recap and all it took was the opening notes Erreru Humaine to make it all come rushing back.

If you find yourself confused with a loved one... this is the record you should delve into.  It's kinda great for break ups and it's also kinda great to listen to when you're in the middle of taking that risk to let someone know you're into them.  It's also really good to throw on and wrestle with the painful feelings of not really being over someone.   

There's a track on here called Give Up - that I recall playing over and over a lot before telling Rhiannon how I felt about her.   It actually almost made me not muster up the courage to sit down across from her and tell her how I felt.  I then kinda remembered I would have a song that would haunt me if I chickened out so I went ahead and put my heart on a platter.

It worked out for me in the end... 

Fuck this album is amazing.

Recommended tracks:

Paws - Youth Culture Forever

Memorial Day, 2014 and I'm on a return flight from Seattle to San Antonio.

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Saved a special record for today's entry...  it's an album (Youth Culture Forever) by a band called Paws.

It doesn't get formally released for sale until June 3rd I think... but I've been streaming it for weeks now.

I fucking LOVE the production on this album.   It kinda reminds me a little bit of the Detachment Kit... only because the tracks can go from a gentle strum to a roaring buzz in a heartbeat.

I can't stress how great the drums and guitars sound on this album... they laid the vocals down really nicely behind the fuzz too.

I've been trying to find more time in the day to really listen to the lyrical content of the album.  There's a lot of interesting heart break themes that can kinda get lost in sound of the album.

On some tracks like: Owls Talons Clenching My Heart - one can really get lost into the heartbreak mood it sets off..  then they turn around and play something really catchy like the song Give Up.

I can't wait to see these guys live. 

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