Long-running UK band Young Knives have announced their sixth album, Landfill, which will be out January 24 via Gadzook. The band produced it themselves and it was mixed by Mike Lindsay of Tuung. Frontman Henry Dartnall says “it’s a record is about letting things go before they are taken from you, including the carefully curated images of ourselves. Embracing everything the world throws at you and not taking it to heart.”
Where 2020’s Barbarians was very, very out there, Landfill’s first single, “Dissolution,” is back on more familiar Young Knives sonic territory. Lyrically it was partially inspired by The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. “This song is kind of dumb. The words are about the dissolution of the ego or ego death; a thing that appears in eastern religions and was written about in Joseph Campbell’s A Hero’s Journey,” says Dartnall. “It’s the refocusing of your attention on the part of you that never becomes yesterday and can never become tomorrow, or something like that. It’s very similar to what people report from psychedelic experiences too. The problem is that writing and performing rock music is very much rooted in the world of the ego, so the idea of my big ego mouth shouting words about ego death is ridiculous. But then I thought that contradiction was kind of fun too.”
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Young Knives will be on a UK tour this winter, and all dates are listed below.
Landfill:
1. A Memory Of Venom
2. Ugly House
3. Cause & Effect
4. The People From the Second Way
5. Dissolution
6. No Sound
7. Your car has arrived
8. Gone, Gone, Completely Gone
9. Love The Knives
10. Fresh Meat
Young Knives 2025 Tour Dates
Tues 28th Jan – Joiners, Southampton, UK
Weds 29th Jan – Strange Brew, Bristol, UK
Thurs 30th Jan – Underworld, London, UK
Fri 31st Jan – The Bullingdon, Oxford, UK
Sat 1st Feb – Komedia, Brighton, UK
Tues 4th Feb – Hare & Hounds, Birmingham, UK
Weds 5th Feb – Deaf Institute, Manchester, UK
Thurs 6th Feb – Future Yard, Birkenhead, UK
Fri 7th Feb – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK
Sat 8th Feb – Hug & Pint, Glasgow, UK