Youthmovies
{{Short description|English rock band}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Youthmovies
| image = YouthmovieSoundtrackStrategies.jpg
| caption = Andrew Mears and Stephen Hammond of Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies on stage at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, in July 2004
| image_size =
| background = group_or_band
| alias = Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies, YMSS, Youm
| origin = Oxford, England, United Kingdom
| genre = Math rock (early years)
Post-rock
Progressive rock
| years_active = 2002–2010
| label = Blast First Petite
Drowned in Sound
Try Harder Records
Fierce Panda
Vacuous Pop
Quickfix
| website = http://www.myspace.com/whyyoum
| past_members = Andrew Mears
Al English
Stephen Hammond
Samuel Hudson Scott
Simon Jones
Graeme Murray
}}
Youthmovies (previously known as YMSS or Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies) were an English rock band active from 2002 to 2010. They consisted of Andrew Mears (guitar and vocals), Al English (guitar), Graeme Murray (drums), Stephen Hammond (bass) and Sam Scott (brass and keys).
History
Simon Jones, drummer for the band Hope of the States, originally played drums in Youthmovies. 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.{{Citation needed|date=October 2010}}
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,{{cite journal|last=Hughes|first=Tim|title=Line-up for truck festival revealed|journal=Oxford Mail|date=10 July 2007|url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/leisure/musics/music/1502337.Line_up_for_truck_festival_revealed/|access-date=16 April 2013|publisher=Newsquest (Oxfordshire & Wiltshire) Ltd}}{{cite journal|last=Hughes|first=Tim|title=6,000 enjoy Truck Festival|journal=Oxford Mail|date=21 July 2008}} Latitude Festival, All Tomorrow's Parties,{{cite web|title=ATP VS THE FANS - LINE UP|url=http://www.atpfestival.com/events/fansfestival07/lineup.php|work=All Tomorrow's Parties website|publisher=ATP Festivals|access-date=16 April 2013}} Bestival, Cambridge Film Festival{{cite web |last=Hawkett |first=Becky |title=Interview: Youthmovies |url=http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk/news/interview-youthmovies |publisher=Cambridge Film Trust |access-date=16 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505144635/http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk/news/interview-youthmovies |archive-date=5 May 2013 |df=dmy-all }} and the Reading and Leeds festivals.
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"{{cite web|first=Andrew|last=Mears|title=Band Notes - Youthmovies|date=2008-03-31|magazine=SUPERSWEET|url =http://supersweet.org/main.aspx?atype=1&aname=Music_SongXSong_Youthmovies&con=1&sc1=0&sc2=0|access-date = 2008-03-31}} and was the first recording to feature the trumpet playing of Sam Scott.
In December 2009, the band announced that they had split. The last tour happened in March 2010 with performances in England and Scotland along with their regular collaborator, Adam Grande.
In October 2017, the band announced a one-off reunion show, which was to take place in March 2018 in Oxford. After the show sold out in under an hour, a second date was announced. Both shows were fundraisers for The Brain Tumour Charity.
Discography
=Albums=
- Good Nature (Drowned in Sound Recordings, released 17 March 2008){{MusicBrainz release|mbid=e9e7e0c0-800d-41c1-ba50-e9d0be2b27fa|name=Good Nature}}
=EPs=
- Let's Get Going... You're Fracturing Me With This Misery (Quickfix Recordings, 2003){{MusicBrainz release|mbid=59d8a3cd-fbba-4f39-a2fe-4aee6ffab1f1|name=Let's Get Going... You're Fracturing Me With This Misery}}
- Hurrah! Another Year, Surely This One Will Be Better Than the Last; The Inexorable March of Progress Will Lead Us All to Happiness (Fierce Panda, August 2004{{MusicBrainz release|mbid=731c0e91-46b6-4050-840b-e9319a12840b|name=Hurrah! Another Year, Surely This One Will Be Better Than the Last; The Inexorable March of Progress Will Lead Us All to Happiness (2005 repress)}})
- Honey Slides (Try Harder Records, collaboration with Adam Gnade released September 2007){{MusicBrainz release|mbid=29c56517-682f-4dc5-bed6-3656361c759b|name=Honey Slides}}
- Polyp (Blast First Petite (featuring guest spots by Adam Gnade and members of 65daysofstatic and Blanket released November 2008){{MusicBrainz release|mbid=0062b190-bdb7-4143-a694-9d11a3100bca|name=Polyp}}
=Singles=
=CDRs=
- Homeless Musics I (October 2005){{MusicBrainz release|mbid=06bd0d02-ba5c-4302-973a-d246ff790392|name=Homeless Musics}}
- Homeless Musics II (2006){{MusicBrainz release|mbid=cf10fabb-f457-40d3-9ca8-7f1e797ee346|name=Homeless Musics II}}
- Homeless Musics III (2006){{MusicBrainz release|mbid=aa571ef9-3ce1-456f-ab4e-a975816305c4|name=Homeless Musics III}}
References
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External links
- {{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p867279}}
- [https://archive.today/20130505144635/http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk/news/interview-youthmovies 2007 Interview for the Cambridge Film Festival]
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Category:English post-rock groups
Category:English math rock groups