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New Video: Following Young People Hanging Out and Partying in JOVM Mainstay Lust For Youth’s “Tokyo”

Now over the past few years, the Danish electro pop trio have become JOVM mainstays — and you may recall that I wrote about that I wrote about “Better Looking Brother,” and “Sudden Ambition” the first two singles off the their sophomore effort Compassion, which was releaesd earlier this year. And both singles further cemented their reputation for crafting melancholic and aching synth pop that was simultaneously dance floor-friendly. The album’s third single “Tokyo” continues on the same vein of the album’s preceding singles but lyrically the song evokes the sense of confusion, loneliness and disconnectedness and wonder of being on the road, as the song’s narrator describes a life of hotel rooms, hotel room food, a brief chance to wander around a town and get a sense of it, the late night crowds and neon lights, the longing for someone who you either can’t have — or is thousands of miles away, removed from your unusual life on the road.

The recently released video for the song was shot by Tokyo residents, who filmed themselves and their daily lives in their hometown — late nights with Lust For Youth fans, who catch their idols playing at a local club, and then speeding off to the next thing, the next adventure or just goofing off with your crew. And in many ways, the video seems to capture young people almost anywhere.

New Audio: Lust For Youth’s New Single “Better Looking Brother” Channels New Order and Cut Copy

Comprised of Hannes Norvide, Loke Rahbek and Malthe Fischer, the Copenhagen, Denmark-based trio, Lust For Youth can trace their origins to when the act began as the self-described “dark, cold, atonal, lonely, tormented” and “lower than lo-fi” solo recording project of […]

Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, Lust for Youth originally started out as the solo project of Hannes Norvide. And his solo releases have been described as “dark, cold atonal lonely, tormented” and even “lower than lo fi.” However, with the […]

Lust For Youth, a  Copenhagen, Denmark-based act initially began as the solo project of Hannes Norvide. And his solo releases have been described as “dark, cold atonal lonely, tormented” and even “lower than lo fi.” However, with the […]

Cascine Records have developed a reputation for signing and releasing work from artists who specialize in a very particular sound – a slickly produced synth pop that owes a great debt to 80s R&B and […]

Moogfest 2014

If you know even the slightest bit about music over the last 100 years, you’d know that the development of sound amplification through the electric guitar in the early 1930s and the the development of […]

The Copenhagen, Denmark-based act Lust for Youth originally started out as the solo project of Hannes Norvide. And his solo releases have been described as “dark, cold atonal lonely, tormented” and even “lower than lo […]

Album Review: Washed Out’s Paracosm

Washed Out Paracosm Sub Pop Records Release Date: August 13, 2013 Track Listing Entrance It Feels Alright Don’t Give Up Weightless All I Know Great Escape Paracosm Falling Back All Over Now Washed Out’s 2011 […]

Washed Out‘s Within Without landed at number 24 on this site’s Best of 2011 List thanks to Ernest  Greene’s cooed vocals over icy synths played through gently, swirling reverb and delay pedals. Sonically, the tracks on that album struck me as […]

Washed Out’s Within Without landed at number 24 on this site’s Best of 2011 List thanks in part to Ernest  Greene’s cooed vocals backed by sleek, icy snyth lines played through gentle layers of reverb and delay pedals and backed […]

Washed Out‘s Within Without landed at number 24 on this site’s Best of 2011 List thanks in part to Ernest  Greene’s cooed vocals backed by sleek, icy snyth lines played through gentle layers of reverb and delay pedals […]