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The Billy Wonderkid EP

by J Robert Youngtown

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J ROBERT YOUNGTOWN UNVEILS DAVEY LANE PRODUCED
GARAGE-PSYCH EP ‘BILLY WONDERKID’

Video for the title track ‘Billy Wonderkid’ here: youtu.be/ifytcev-FLs

Tasmanian singer/songwriter J Robert Youngtown has unleashed his new EP today, a four-track collection of fuzzed-out, psychedelic garage rockers that finds a fresh take on an immortal sound.

A longtime admirer of Aussie rock heroes You Am I, Youngtown reached out to their incendiary lead guitarist Davey Lane to produce the EP. Finding a shared set of influences from the obvious classics to arcane and perverse musical rarities, Youngtown and Davey clicked immediately and soon they decamped to Davey’s kitted out home studio.

“James had a bunch of tunes at the ready,” Davey recalls. “I had some drums and wires in a garage. We went in armed with Melbourne’s finest beat drummer (powerhouse stickman Brett Wolfie) and after two days we had some songs that dipped a toe into a Daviesian past and another toe into space. I’m thrilled with the result.”

“Working with Davey was a two-for-one deal,” says Youngtown. “I got one of my favorite guitarists and I also got a kindred spirit musically. The creative flow once we started recording was quite extraordinary, and the songs came to life in record time”.

Splitting instrumental duties between the three players and stalwart Melbourne indie bassist Sam Fiddian, a sound soon developed that reflected the heightened dynamics, glam sing-a-long choruses and relentless grooves of Youngtown’s songs. The songs are complimentary and distinct, while forming an overall listening experience that’s more than the sum of its impressive parts. Kicking off with the Johnny B Goode via Slade story song title track, to the danceable and infectious groover ‘Halfway Up the Hill’, overdriven guitar rave up on ‘Won’t You Please Come Home’, and closing on the sardonic Kinks by way of Tim Rogers ‘Attempting Normal’.

The EP is the most concentrated, joyful work yet from an artist who takes his music seriously but knows not to take himself too seriously.

“I worked really hard to make these the tightest, punchiest songs I’ve written. I feel like in the kind of times we’re living in, there’s something kind of noble about making a record that could really fire people’s imaginations in a positive way while they listen. I wanted to make an EP that reminded me of what I loved about the music that made me pick up a guitar – and will sound great coming out of a PA on a sweaty rock’n’roll stage”.

This project was assisted through Arts Tasmania by the Minister for the Arts.

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released September 7, 2017

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