Come back to Welcome Home

Every so often a song comes along that completely takes you by surprising, defying all the conventions of what is currently fashionable and sounding completely fresh. Over the past month of so, i've had one of those epiphanies.

"Welcome Home" by Midlands based band All The Young is a tremendous record. It is a raw, hooky, six minute indie epic with nods to everything from prog to grunge. The modern music industry is currently averse to anything in the vein of traditional rock and roll songwriting, preferring the two minute collection of gimmicks to a soaring, developing symphony like this. Given these difficult fashions, the band need to make good records if anyone is to take them seriously and they certainly are. What is most attractive about "Welcome Home" to me is that is isn't perfect. It showcases a band who are still developing their songwriting and their sound and that is tremendously exciting.

Having heard other songs by the band, they are clearly mean business and enjoy spinning tales of hope in bleak times. If there is any justice in the world, they'll be as famous as Take That by the end of the year.