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EP2017: Young Fathers pull a smile out of their darkest depths

Scottish band’s set is sinister, intense and furious at Electric Arena

Photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish Times

Louise Bruton
Fri Sep 1 2017 - 20:56

Young Fathers

Electric Arena

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A Young Fathers set starts like a death march. Sinister, intense and furious, courtesy of the thudding drums that coat their music. The Scottish group reach down into their darkest depths - and the back of their throats - with the high-pitched and reverberating war cries of Queen is Dead.

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They come in heavy with that, you know, their foreboding sense of doom as they stare the crowd down, holding their bodies rigid, but in a flicker of a second, that mood can lift.

Smiles creep across their faces during Get Up, their call for a revolution. Their moody stance can sometimes be a misfire but tonight they are hitting the right tone.

Gig in three words: Thundering, menacing, heavy

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