The band is on tour with Rooney and Black Gold through the end of July and you can get the dates and buy tickets via their Myspace. And the best stuff always comes at the most inopportune moment!įor more info on the Young Veins, visit their website here.
I just have to write stuff as soon as it’s in my head because otherwise the song just stays there. **So is it relaxing?**I wish! Songwriting is the opposite, it drives me nuts. On The Young Veins’ debut album, Take a Vacation, you will hear an outfit with both intellect and ambition - a band that knows exactly who they are and where they are going.As 23 year-old frontman, Ryan Ross, re-imagines 60s pop, tropicalia, old New York girl groups and fuzzed-out psychedelia to Nuggets-era garage rock and Stax-inspired soul, you will hear a band that is mature beyond its. For us, the best stuff is when we just pick up a guitar and go the songs just start themselves. We were writing this while we were on tour in South East Asia, stuck in hotel rooms between gigs. **What was the songwriting process for Take a Vacation like?**I do a lot of the songwriting with Jon which is great, I’m very lucky because our styles work so well together. I had a little tape recorder and I’d just record one track at a time then go over it and over it. I started writing songs much earlier though, it was the songwriting that came first for me. I didn’t start playing the guitar until I was 13 or 14. It's just simple, but great music from a group of young musicians that still has a lot more to offer.**So growing up with all those great tunes, were you a musical kid?**Actually not at all-I was playing sports instead at first, I played hockey a lot. So if you're a fan of pre-Rubber Soul Beatles and Beach Boys-esque harmonies then this is going to be the soundtrack to your summer. One can only hope that this band is here to stay and that "Take A Vacation!," is their "Please, Please Me," just the first in a stellar career of music. It's great to hear a young band these days that is able to pay tribute to a classic act without having the music sound forced. The lyrics are truly haunting at times with the chorus of "She comes to me, when I dream, I'm tired of counting sheep to see her, I sleep because I need her," it's a relatable song in an album filled with them. A tale of heartbreak and remorse, it's one of the most beautiful songs on the record. This is another case where the song is carried by a very strong lyric and only enhanced by the playing of the musicians.
From there we get to the album's true highlight, 'Cape Town,' which features some truly inspired playing from both Ross and Walker, and one of the best, most heartfelt choruses to come along in a long time.Īnother highlight is 'Everyone But You,' which recalls The Beatles 'Yesterday' in it's simplicity. The title track is a classic story of just wanting to run away with that special someone, something that almost anyone could understand. The song's Phil Spector-ish production lures you in and will certainly keep you there. While listening to the opening track, 'Change,' one could be convinced that George Harrison was playing lead guitar. "Take A Vacation!" starts off strong and stays that way, both musically and lyrically throughout the album. They went on to form The Young Veins and in the process have created an album that recalls "Help!" with a little bit of early Kinks for good measure. Ross and Walker on the other hand had much better ideas. Last June, Ryan Ross (Guitar/Vocals) and Jon Walker (Bass/Vocals) quit Panic at the Disco citing "creative differences." When Panic released the song 'New Perspective,' the differences were quite clear, the other members of Panic were happy to retread into their infant stage and keep releasing the same kind of garbage from their debut album. That's not the case with The Young Veins, a band that wears it's influences on it's sleeves, which in this case is a great thing. Every once in a while a band come along that mines The Beatles for inspiration and many of them fall flat.
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