Yung share new track, ‘The Child’

By Ben Tipple

Danish post-punks Yung have unveiled another new track, ‘The Child’. It marks a departure from their otherwise distorted energy, showcasing their softer yet equally intriguing side.

“I wrote ‘The Child’ while working a summer job at a crop farm last year,” says singer and songwriter Mikkel Holm Silkjær. “I stayed at the farm for ten days and had very little to do besides working and playing the guitar. It’s a reflection on the conflict between being an artist but also being successful…When you start playing music you do it for the sake of writing music but when you’re signed to a label there’s commercial pressure. There are good things and bad things about that. One of the good things certainly is that you have to reinvent yourself within or beyond your music, which I tried to do with ‘The Child,’ as it’s a bit different to a lot of Yung songs.”

‘The Child’ is the third in a recent series of track releases, following on from ‘Pills‘ and ‘Uncombed Hair‘. All are taken from the band’s forthcoming debut full-length, ‘A Youthful Dream’, available from the 10th June before Yung head over to UK shores for a headline show at London’s Shaklewell Arms on the 14th.

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