Gang of Youths' David Le'aupepe on family history, and going maximalist on 'Angel In Real Time'

Gang of Youths' frontman David Le'aupepe joins The Current to discuss the Australian alt-rock group's latest record, 'Angel In Real Time'. Reflecting on the loss of his father and exploration into his family history, Le'aupepe dove into a maximalist approach on the release, "... it needed to be offensive to taste making sensibilities. It needed to be a complete violation of all those things. It needed to not be a downtempo miserable, sad, sodden record that everyone expects. There's this weird idea that somehow you can only convey true emotion with sad quiet intimacies and I resent that. I think it's a very old fashioned way to look at music-to convey things with huge, enormous, sweeping, panoramic-style songs, I think is just as effective, and we wanted to combine the two sensibilities."
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Credits
Guest - David Le'aupepe
Host - Mary Lucia
Producer - Jesse Wiza, Derrick Stevens
Technical Director - Eric Romani

[@lucatheghost]

Great interview! He gives such damn good, insightful interviews wow

[@jakobibarker]

just went to see these guys at brixton last night, they were absolutely unreal. thank you gang of youths for an unforgettable experience 🤩

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