Montreal’s Young Galaxy are set to return with a new album, Ultramarine, on April 23 via Paper Bag Records.
The band collaborated again with Dan Lissvik, the prolific producer and one half of now-defunct electronics duo Studio, but this time, rather than constructing the tracks by sending them back and forth, they travelled to Gothenburg to record the songs in live takes. Have a listen to album opener and first single, ‘Pretty Boy’ (artwork above), released next Monday, February 4, given a surprisingly airy, pop-oriented rework by cosmic LA twosome Peaking Lights: