YOBS - YOBS

'Fortune Teller', a roller-coaster of high-energy riffs and pounding drums, began life as a warm-up in practice, before evolving live and then being committed to tape. The stomping lead single 'Wasted' was the first song YOBS wrote together and became an instant live favourite, the gang-vocal chorus often screamed back at them by their inebriated crowd. "This one was inspired by a heavy weekend at a festival I played in another band", Ackland recalls of the aptly-titled single: "We had over-indulged a bit and after crawling to a portaloo, I ended up getting stuck in there for what seemed like a year. Every time I tried to leave I couldn’t find my way out. I ended up sat on the floor, giving myself a bit of a talking to."

While often inspired by and perfectly suited to boozy high-jinks, the 'YOBS' LP doesn't shy away from more serious and angered subject matter. The caustic noise-rocker 'Cyanide' is inspired by the tragic story of scientist and mathematician Alan Turing, driven to poisoning himself by a homophobic establishment and legal system – the song "written from the angle of one of the angry mob who stalked him, and stopped him living a normal life." Elsewhere, the gnarly 'Head The Ball' – the heaviest cut on the album, bordering on hardcore territory – takes aim at sneering middle-class elitism: "We never aimed to be a political band, but it’s pretty hard not to be influenced by the growing populism and this yearning to be an elitist. It's gross isn't it? So, this is saying fuck you to them. Don't look down your nose at us, when you are licking the boots of the royals, waving shitty flags and supporting the likes of Johnson or Trump... Vive la revolution, vive le YOBS!"