Years active 2002–2010 | Active until 2010 | |
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Also known as Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies, YMSS, Youm Labels Blast First Petite
Drowned in Sound
Try Harder
Fierce Panda
Vacuous Pop
Quickfix Associated acts Pet Moon, Adam Gnade, Vertical Montanas, Jonquil, Hamm, Traktors, Hold My Hand I'm Dying, Foals, Bins Are For Bombs Past members Andrew Mears
Al English
Stephen Hammond
Samuel Hudson Scott
Simon Jones
Graeme Murray Origin Oxford, United Kingdom (2002) Members Andrew Mears, Graeme Murray, Al English, Stephen Hammond, Sam Scott Albums Good Nature, Homeless Musics 3, Homeless Musics 2 Genres Post-rock, Progressive rock, Math rock (early years) Similar The Edmund Fitzgerald, Foals, Adam Gnade, Jack Bevan, Walter Gervers | ||
Youthmovies (previously known as YMSS or Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies) were an English rock quintet active from 2002 to 2010. They comprised Andrew Mears (guitar and vocals), Al English (guitar), Graeme Murray (drums), Stephen Hammond (bass) and Sam Scott (brass and keys).
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History
Simon Jones, drummer from the band Hope of the States, originally played drums in Youthmovies. However, just prior to Hope of the States being signed to Sony BMG in 2004, Jones was replaced by Graeme Murray.
Their early sound touched upon noise, brooding soundscapes, samples, feedback and drone, though their mini-album Hurrah! Another Year, Surely This One Will Be Better Than the Last; The Inexorable March of Progress Will Lead Us All to Happiness and the subsequent single "Ores" suggested they were moving into a more ambitious and musically accomplished sound.
The band toured extensively with Hope of the States, Pioneers Press author Adam Gnade, 65daysofstatic and ¡Forward, Russia!. They also played at the Truck Festival, Latitude Festival, All Tomorrow's Parties, Bestival, Cambridge Film Festival and the Reading and Leeds festivals.
The band developed a reputation as a compelling live act, touring regularly as well as playing improvisations, collaborations and live film soundtracks in art galleries, theatres and forests.
In October 2007 the band released a 5-track CD EP in collaboration with Adam Gnade entitled Honey Slides on guitarist Al English's label Try Harder.
Between April and June 2007 the band recorded their first full-length album, Good Nature, at the Seamus Wong studio in Leicester, released on Drowned in Sound Recordings on 17 March 2008. Ant Theaker, former guitarist with Hope of the States, produced the album, which was mixed at the Strongroom Studios in east London, and mastered in Chicago by Bob Weston of Shellac. The album introduced "a new attention to melody" and was the first recording to feature the trumpet playing of Sam Scott.
In December 2009, the band announced that they had split. In March 2010 the band toured one last time in England and Scotland along with regular collaborator Adam Gnade.
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The Naughtiest Girl Is a MonitorGood Nature · 2008
If You'd Seen a BattlefieldGood Nature · 2008
Sad TrashPolyp EP · 2008