Gang Of Youths Angel in Realtime

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Gang Of Youth's new music fuses their knack of soaring melodies, indelible hooks and dynamic rock uplifts with a love of neoclassical, minimalist composers and experimental sampling. They're embarking on the most vital phase of their career so far. Although the album is eclectic – influences range from American minimalism and contemporary classical, to drawing upon the legacy of Britain's alternative/indie scenes, from drum ‘n' bass to the most transcendent moments of Britpop – it's equally rooted in David Le'aupepe's Samoan heritage, with the majority of tracks featuring samples from David Fanshawe's recordings of indigenous music from the Polynesian islands and the wider South Pacific.

Lyrically, the new material inhabits a similarly fascinating space. Le'aupepe will tell you that he's had writer's block for five years, but he'll also shift mesmerically through the gears as he explains the themes of these songs, tracks about his relationship with his father, who died recently, about Pacific identity, marriage, colonisation, missed conversations, life and how it all boils down to those innocuous small print moments. "Lyrically, I used to wait to be all grandiose and romantic, big fucking sweeping fields of Bruce Springsteen-isms and Nick Cave," says Le'aupepe. "Now I want to put beauty to the nothingness of most conversations."