Today sees the official release of the brand new Shortstraw album, entitled “Youthless” which is the band’s third full length album to date.
The album debuted at #1 this morning on the iTunes Album Chart and sees the band venturing into a new direction. They didn’t want to replicate their last album, so the have branched out and explored different genres for this release – a logical progression.
“The main inspiration behind “Youthless” was actually just doing a record that we wanted to do. We wanted to just take every idea that we’ve had since the last album and just put it down. It’s a bit schizophrenic like that, but we think it’s a good schizophrenia! In terms of music inspiration, it’s pretty diverse. There’s a bit of the Australian scene that we’ve been exposed to over the past year and a bit, which you’ll hear in ‘Heaps Keen’ – largely influenced by Australian band, Dune Rats. There’s High School, which was inspired by the White Stripes. Good Winter, inspired by Bon Iver. Then a bunch of others that range from Vampire Weekend to We Were Promised Jetpacks to Taking Back Sunday.”
“Youthless” Track Listing:
Youthless
Oxygen Supply
OMG
Until Your Head Hits My Pillow
Heaps Keen
House
Charlotte Carter
Say Anything
Campus Life
Out With It
Tidy Up
High School
Curtains
When You’re Angry
Good Winter
“There are ballads, there are punk-inspired anthems, there are indie-pop songs. It’s a bit like growing up really. It’s got good times, it’s got bad times, it’s got happy times, it’s got sad times. It’s a journey through adulthood. But even the sad songs will make you happy.”
Listen to “Youthless” below.
