On July 20, which is Saturday, Portland, Oregon’s Young Hunter will play their 10th anniversary show at the World Famous Kenton Club, sharing the bill with Sun Blood Stories and The Black Door. Plus a psychedelic light show. That’s a nifty enough occasion to mark, but the dark atmospheric heavy outfit — whose Stone Tools (discussed here) I date back to 2012, but what is time anyway; 10 years in Portland, perhaps — have issued their first new music in seven years as well, the new single “Loudness Wars” that you’ll find streaming at the bottom of this post.

Their last outing, 2017’s Dayhiker (review here), basked in similar dual-vocal-and-grim-assessment,of-reality vibing, but time has not made Young Hunter any less textural in terms of sound. It’s the same lineup that was behind the record, which certainly isn’t going to be points against it, and while I have no idea to what if anything it might be leading — yes, of course I’m talking about a new album; what else would I ever mean? — that there’s any new Young Hunter at all falls under a category of pleasant enough surprise that I’m glad to just take it at face value. If you get the chance to listen to the song, perhaps you’ll also agree that’s plenty, especially after more than half a decade of outward studio silence.

Info snagged from old-man social media and Bandcamp, which I think might count as the same at this point. Fine:

Come celebrate our 10 year anniversary at the same place we had our first show World Famous Kenton Club with Sun Blood Stories and the Black Doors. We’ll also be releasing our first new music in years with our (cas)single “Loudness Wars”.

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Brandon Eggleston at Ice Cream Party Studios, Portland, Oregon 2023

Artwork by Sara Pinnell
Layout by Christopher Walberg

Young Hunter:
Benjamin Ford-Sala – Guitar, vocals
Erik Wells – Guitar, synthesizer
Grant Pierce – Drums
Sam Dean – Bass
Sara Pinnell – Vocals, synthesizer, percussion

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Young Hunter, “Loudness Wars”

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