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Young Fathers – Brooklyn Steel – April 4, 2024

Young Fathers make an all-encompassing brand of progressive hip-hop (think: hip-hop, pop, soul, avant-garde, noise, political, punk, psych, rock, layered harmonies) that is uniquely theirs. The band’s three members met as kids at a youth club, began performing live in their teens and then, after dropping a pair of acclaimed mixtapes, came out swinging on their 2014 debut studio album, Dead, winning the coveted Mercury Prize.

“Many bands spend their entire careers being compared to a host of their peers and predecessors, operating more as an amalgamation of influences than creators in their own right,” says The Line of Best Fit. “Others, however, become just the opposite — the cultural touchstones against which other artists will always be measured. With Dead, Young Fathers have become on those bands — it’s like nothing else out there.”

The Edinburgh, Scotland, trio’s fourth LP, Heavy Heavy, arrived last winter, again earning raves. NME dubbed it “anthemic, boundary-breaking pop,” going on to add: “Succinct and underpinned by a catchy melodic structure, it continues Young Fathers’ peerless run of singular albums and further cements them as one of the more unique acts to exist today.”

Young Fathers launched a much-anticipated two-week North American tour on Wednesday at The Sinclair in Boston, and last night they were enthusiastically welcomed by a sold-out Brooklyn Steel.