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The Young Veins Take it Old School (7/20 Atlas NY Rooftop)
By drainu182 , Tags : The Young Veins
By Britnee Foreman
The new band, The Young Veins, have recently released their debut album “Take A Vacation” and did a roof top concert to promote the album. I got to be one of the lucky few to take in the empire state building as a backdrop to the dreamy 60’s pop inspired ensemble.
Even though this band is in its infancy, it can boast music veterans among its line up with Ryan Ross and Jon Walker, formerly of Panic! at the Disco sharing the vocal duties. Each also play guitar for the band in addition to Andy Soukal on bass, Nick White on the keyboard, and Nick Murray on the drums.
You can tell that the sound that influenced PATD’s last album, The Beatles, is still heavily influencing this new project. It has a dreamy, hazy vibe to it with funky bass lines intermittently cropping up throughout the album.
Even as they performed the kept the aesthetic in line with the sound with skinny suits and shaggy hair, it was groovy all around.
Just like its inspiration, the band’s sound is poppy and fun and great for the summer. It was fitting that this event be held outside on a warm summer’s night (with an open bar). It made for the perfect theme for the evening. The only way that it could be better is if it were the soundtrack to a Frankie and Annette movie, or maybe one of those old Elvis movies. Either way you get my gist. They’re totally the bee’s knees (did they say that in the 60s?).
You should buy the album, or even better — see a show; you will be happy you did. They tell fun stories in between songs. They are quite likeable and it’s good clean fun. I believe there was even an Otis Redding cover during the night.
They are fully committed to the sound and aesthetic of this long gone era, which I think is refreshing in contrast to the constant revival of the 80s (let it die already). It is bubblegum pop at its best, in the original form. It’s quite brilliant.
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