Review Round-Up with Bryan Menegus Young Widows- In and Out of Youth and Lightness Young Widows are a sludgy, heavy group out of Louisville, KY who take after Touch and Go or Amphetamine Reptile-signed sludgy, heavy groups from the early 90’s. And on their sophomore release, 2008’s Old Wounds, they had gotten it down to such a science that it seemed fresh all over again. Something in the present decade seems to have taken the wind out of Young Widows though. In and Out of Youth and Lightness gets mired in its own intentional muddiness; in short, it’s not that the band’s concept has gone stale, they simply don’t achieve their earlier glory. RIYL: The Jesus Lizard, Daughters Grade: C+

Review Round-Up

with Bryan Menegus

Young Widows- In and Out of Youth and Lightness

Young Widows are a sludgy, heavy group out of Louisville, KY who take after Touch and Go or Amphetamine Reptile-signed sludgy, heavy groups from the early 90’s. And on their sophomore release, 2008’s Old Wounds, they had gotten it down to such a science that it seemed fresh all over again. Something in the present decade seems to have taken the wind out of Young Widows though. In and Out of Youth and Lightness gets mired in its own intentional muddiness; in short, it’s not that the band’s concept has gone stale, they simply don’t achieve their earlier glory.

RIYL: The Jesus Lizard, Daughters

Grade: C+

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