Gold & Youth Share Single + Video "Maudlin Days (Robocop)" Via Flaunt

Gold & Youth Share New Single + Video "Maudlin Days (Robocop)" Via Flaunt READ American Songwriter Feature Dream Baby LP Out Nov 5th Via Paper Bag Records

PRE-ORDER/PRE-SAVE: Gold & Youth - Dream Baby Pre-Order / Pre-Save LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Gold & Youth - "Maudlin Days (Robocop)" Stream / YouTube LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Gold & Youth - "The Worse The Better" Stream / YouTube   "Interspersed with siren-esque calls and soothing, yet pulsing synths, it’s easy to get lost in the music as it envelopes you in a warm haze." - Flaunt "It is an acknowledgment that with the shadow can come bliss and self-delusion in the cracks of light, but lord, there is so much shadow." - Post-Punk “'The Worse The Better' revolves around shimmering, retro instrumentals. Frontperson Matthew Lyall delivers some deep, captivating croons on this catchy new tune." - Indie88 "The band combines a new-wave kick that rekindles the Killers’ first two records along with a prestigiously lush swooning recalling Glasvegas and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club." - Glide "Melancholic with undeniable charm, this track is a guaranteed gem to add on to any alternative playlist." - Indie Sound  "This Canadian quartet draw equally on American alt-rock and English synth-pop to achieve a brooding rhythmical miserablism" - The Guardian "Like everything absurdly filthy and glamorous in a Bret Easton Ellis novel or David Lynch film, Gold & Youth taunts the limits of reality with heightened drama and darkness." -  Beatroute Magazine "From the dancing rays of the sun, to the landscapes the boy runs through, the video for 'Daylight Colours'  is a grand exploration of imagination and freedom." - Vice "'Beyond Wilderness' effectively captures the spirit of vintage synth-pop." - Exclaim "If you're expecting twee indie-rock though, think again. With more in common with sludge synth lords Trust than Emily Haines and co, where you might expect Gold & Youth to pin their colours to to the plaid mast, they turn up dressed all in black." - NME Today, Gold & Youth have released "Maudlin Days (Robocop)," another single off their forthcoming album Dream Baby (due November 5 via Paper Bag Records). The single and accompanying lyric video were premiered alongside an interview via Flaunt. On the track, Gold & Youth say,  A substantial part of the lyrics for 'Robocop' are a near verbatim transcript from when I was sucked into a conversation at a party last year with some finance bros who kept insisting they had found truth (“about, like, everything man") after doing ayahuasca together on a boys trip. The entire exchange was one of total earnestness on the part of the bros, oblivious to tact, cultural sensitivities or fashion sense (one of them was wearing a pink and gold Givenchy tracksuit into the Ayahuasca hut) and I engaged with thinly veiled contempt and entirely in bad faith in a deeply embarrassing battle of wits. It wasn’t until later, when rehashing the story with my girlfriend, a story in which I was so sure I was doing’s God’s work in raining down ridicule and condescension with a half smirk (and to be clear, this story absolutely deserved ridicule and condescension), that it became obvious that I had slipped into just as much of a caricature as they had: The Lululemon wall street jabronis vs the smug lefty band guy who claims to love humanity above all else but rolls his eyes at actual humans (even finance bros are humans after all right). Low stakes and who cares right? Not exactly profound. But, it was a great jumping off point for writing about a real sense of alienation I’ve felt in so many social situations in my life and constantly wondering how much of it has been self imposed. How often am I preemptively detaching myself from potential human connection to preserve some abstracted convictions about what my chosen friend group might say about me? Aren't these convictions about love, empathy and understanding just empty high minded rhetoric if I don’t try to actually love, understand and empathize with the actual humans in my life? 'Aren’t people all we’ve really got man?!'. Deeply solipsistic bullshit. The name of the song is equally self involved. Any time I go cold and detach my girlfriend calls me 'Robocop,' which she stole from my bandmate's nickname for me on tour. Aloof, ultra stoic, but incredibly capable of driving from Vancouver to San Diego in a single go."   Gold & Youth - "Maudlin Days (Robocop)" GOLD & YOUTH LINKS Facebook | Twitter | Instagram