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CMU Approved
Approved: Young Empires
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 27 July 2010
Canadian pop trio Young Empires formed in Toronto late last year and nine months later are starting to turn an increasing number of heads with a handful of impressive demos, which have been distributed liberally around the blogosphere. One in particular, ‘Rain Of Gold’, is rising up the Hype Machine charts. They’re also one of the bands that everyone who attended this year’s NXNE festival in Canada seems to have come home flapping their mouths off about.
Although I labelled them pop back there, they refer to their sound as ‘world beat haute rock’, which apparently means house beats with pop synths and the odd African or Middle Eastern flourish thrown in there for good measure. This inevitably means that I want to mention Yeasayer, though the connection is loose at best. Maybe Fool’s Gold would be better, and there’s also a touch of Empire Of The Sun in there, too. I don’t know, why don’t you try and work it out for yourself, as they’re touring the UK this week and next, starting tonight at the White Heat night at Madame JoJo’s in Soho.
