Vi invitere til en singer songwriter aften når Cory Wells og Youth Fountain kigger forbi til september 2022.
Billetsalg starter onsdag 12 maj kl: 11
Cory Wells:
The cover of Cory Wells’ debut album, THE WAY WE ARE, features the Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter
perched atop a rusted-out vintage car, calling to mind dusty folk music. Songs like the set-opening “Distant” and
“Keiko,” imbued by seemingly effortless musicianship and wistful nostalgia, go a long way toward reinforcing this
sonic predilection.
But there’s more to Wells than what you’ll find on the surface. The songwriter grew up playing metal before
discovering Dashboard Confessional’s seminal MTV Unplugged 2.0 live album, a record that set him on a hard
left turn to creating a more well-worn, earnest style. Even so, he injects the desperation and power of his heavy
music background into every note of THE WAY WE ARE.
Across the album’s 12 songs, Wells plays the role of shapeshifter: Just when you’ve got him figured out, he
unleashes new musical elements – a ferocious scream (“Walk Away”) that eventually gives way to soaring falsetto
(“Cement”), stirring acoustic guitar that crescendos into fiery full-band fare. The ghosts of new-era emo
torchbearers (including Dashboard’s Chris Carrabba, a contributor on “Fall Apart”) are alive and well in his lush
beds of acoustic-based rock, but Wells isn’t actively summoning them. Rather, he’s a decidedly patient
songwriter, waiting for the right time to pair a searing lyric with the throat-shredding vocal performance it
demands.
Wells launched his solo project in 2017 with his first release for Pure Noise, the How to Tear Apart the Ones You
Love EP, and follow-up single “End of a Good Thing” quickly became a viral hit in 2018, racking up millions of
YouTube views and Spotify streams and introducing fans around the world to Wells’ storytelling.
At this point in his still-young career as a solo artist, Wells is in an enviable position: As a true student of music in
all its styles and forms (“Every genre has its place, and I appreciate something from all of it”), he’s a songwriter
without limits. He’s already masterfully distilled the songs of his youth – the emotional ferocity of metal, the hearton-
sleeve confessionalism of emo and salt-of-the-earth universality of folk – into the music of his present, and
looking forward, there seems to be no telling how Wells’ music will evolve from here.
Youth Fountain:
What began as a solo project by guitarist/vocalist Tyler Zanon in 2013 under the name Bedroom Talk eventually blossomed into a full-blown band by 2017, with the Vancouver-based Youth Fountain (then a duo) proudly announcing their presence with the debut single “Grinding Teeth” and a pair of Pure Noise Records releases that expertly toed the line between pop-punk fervor and more reflective emo moments.
Alternative Press hailed the band’s 2019 debut full-length, Letters To Our Former Selves, as one of the year’s very best, dubbing it the “perfect blend of emo-tinged punk to soundtrack reflecting on every single life decision you’ve ever made,” while North American tours with the likes of Free Throw, Can’t Swim, and Chris Farren cemented Youth Fountain’s sweat-soaked sound as something best experienced live – all while dodging a few stray elbows and overzealous crowd-surfers.
Now once again, Zanon finds himself as a solo artist following the departure of co-vocalist Cody Muraro in mid-2020 – but this time, he’s exactly where he wants to be. Youth Fountain’s new release, Letters To Our Former Selves – Acoustic EP, re-introduces Zanon’s project to the world, reimagining fan favorite material from the 2019 LP of the same name.
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