Young the Giant “My Body”

via Mixtape Maestro

So many other Alternative and Modern Rock names, of either side of the Atlantic, cross the mind in the four-minutes-and-eleven-seconds length of Young The Giant‘s “My Body” that, on first listen, it could be easy to write the newbie Cali five-piece off as another forgettable, faceless indie-rock entity a little too tethered to their past and present influences to be deemed worthwhile.

However, there’s a certain addictive magnetism in the expertly crafted shades of been-there-heard-that familiarity embedded all throughout this record that’ll keep you coming back for more: the knotted tension captured in the verses’ chugging bassline, shimmering guitars and pummeling drums; that epic release brought forth in the song’s soaring, clouds-parting hook; the playfully raucous lead-in to the bridge; and, guiding the listener through each of these increasingly thrilling frames, frontman Sameer Gadhia’s quivery croons and ragged yowls making the somewhat cryptic lyrics sing with such a weighty heft of personal importance you’re damn near forced to pump a fist in the air to support whatever mysterious “road” and “war” he has come to embrace.

A U2/ Coldplay/ Kings of Leon/ Strokes/ So Many Others-hybrid we could definitely get down with over and over again.

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