A Youthful Dream

What are the dreams of a youth that never makes time to rest? For Yung frontman Mikkel Holm SilkjÌ_r, a Danish DIY figurehead who has left a catalogue of cassettes and self-produced songs in his wake, the goal seemed to be recording, and living, as fast as possible. Since he began to record music as a teenager (his father put him behind a drum set when he was 4), slow hasn‰۪t been his preferred speed. Writing and performing songs filled with gritty guitar and driving rhythms that snap like a live wire, he‰۪s been busy channelling the electric drive of youth, creating brief, flashing sonic portraits of his life in Aarhus, the country‰۪s gritty, industrial second city. That makes the music on the reflective A Youthful Dream, the debut album from Yung, such a revelation. Angst makes space for wisdom, youthful exuberance begins channelling road-tested experience, and a blur of basement shows and self-produced bromides becomes something more. DIY doesn‰۪t mean unrefined, it just means perso