Name: Youth Is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect [LP] *
Brand: RCA
SKU: 119676767
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Youth Is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect [LP] *

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Album: Youth Is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect [LP] *
#	Song Title		Time
1)	A Young Understanding	More Info...
2)	Loveblood	More Info...
3)	Olympia	More Info...
4)	Happy Family	More Info...
5)	Flame	More Info...
6)	Lose the Feeling	More Info...
7)	She Said	More Info...
8)	Vivienne	More Info...
9)	Be Nobody	More Info...
10)	Deep Relief	More Info...
11)	Watching from Great Heights	More Info...
12)	The Night	More Info...

Album: Youth Is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect [LP] *
#	Song Title		Time
1)	A Young Understanding	More Info...
2)	Loveblood	More Info...
3)	Olympia	More Info...
4)	Happy Family	More Info...
5)	Flame	More Info...
6)	Lose the Feeling	More Info...
7)	She Said	More Info...
8)	Vivienne	More Info...
9)	Be Nobody	More Info...
10)	Deep Relief	More Info...
11)	Watching from Great Heights	More Info...
12)	The Night	More Info...

Performer Notes

Britain quartet Sundara Karma arrive with shimmering guitars and great expectations, delivering a lengthily titled pop treatise on youth in the modern age. Produced by Larry Hibbitt (Hundred Reasons, Nothing But Thieves), Youth Is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect introduces the Reading-bred newcomers' warmly anthemic sound and barely earned nostalgia. In frontman Oscar Pollack, the band have a charismatic, if somewhat familiar voice that can ably power these 12 tracks all the way back to the cheap seats, where they seem squarely aimed. Opener "A Young Understanding" sets the table in terms of dynamics with Pollack's robust vocals punctuating a soaring, circular guitar pattern that reaches for the rafters and hangs on. In both tone and color, there is much of the '80s rock-adoring earnestness in Sundara Karma's sound as they strive for mid-period Springsteen desperation while sometimes borrowing Big Country's knife-like guitar leads. By and large, though, this is 21st century rock written and played for a youthful (that word again) target audience of their peers that takes dynamic cues from first-wave millennial rockers like Arcade Fire and the Killers. High points like the opener, "Olympia," and the slowly building "Be Nobody" show a band with stadium-sized ambitions and a penchant for dramatic pop hooks. ~ Timothy Monger

Professional Reviews

Clash (magazine) - "Acting as the figureheads for an emerging scene of intelligent indie, Sundara Karma's debut is a rip-roaring voyage of exploration and an all-encompassing ode to youth."