Age, like many things, creeps up on you. According to Spotify, The Young Hearts’ first release is a decade old. Slowly, they’ve grown into their band name, quietly doing their thing until they realised one thing, they were “never going to make it.” As the sadness of time caught up with them, reality punctured their dream, but it hasn’t stopped them. That understanding is both honest and, in many ways, freeing; they’re literally making music for themselves and that’s a good thing, otherwise we wouldn’t have their new EP ‘The Good, The Bad & The Rest Of Us’.
Remember that one summer, outside in the sunshine, sharing time with friends. You laughed and you loved, and it was only when you looked back that it felt special. That’s the EP’s vibe in a nutshell. The Young Hearts are storytellers, wrapping their memories in oak-aged punk and the jangle of lead guitars. It’s a mischievous type of music that can’t help but remind you of The Gaslight Anthem but has feel of a rocker’s well-worn…
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