Youth Group Take to the Sea for The Night Is Ours

For their new record, The Night Is Ours (out April 7), Australian stars Youth Group decided to forgo the more traditional approach employed for their previous records. Over the period of a couple of months in late 2007, the band holed up in a near-derelict 1920s mess hall on Sydneys harbor, turning the vacated building into a studio and bringing in all of their own gear to build an inimitable recording environment which allowed them to work at their own pace, creating the songs that they wanted.
While Youth Group was looking for possible out-of-the-ordinary recording spaces for the new album, guitarist Cameron Emerson-Elliots father told them about an old mess hall near a ship, the MV Cape Don, that he was helping to renovate. The band realized almost immediately that it was a perfect fit. Removed from the bustle of the main harbor, the boat and mess hall not only afforded the band the space and time to create music free from outside pressure, it even influenced the sound of the album itself.
As frontman Toby Martin explains, The environment began to shape the songs: a theme of desolation began to emerge. The songs started to become about one character a person who was trying to escape from the corruption of past sins, looking for redemption and cure. Sonically, the record became expansive, layered, reflecting the sea, the horizon, the expanse of nowhere. The environment gave the record a character and made it an album rather than just a collection of songs. The Night Is Ours is not a record of sea shanties, it is about being 'at sea.
The proper recording took place in the mess hall, but the band used the MV Cape Don, a Lighthouse Tender built in 1963 (later retired in the 1980s), to record different atmospheric and percussive sounds, very literally bringing a part of the sea into their music.
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