FatCat is delighted to announce Youth Culture Forever, the second album from PAWS which saw the band decamp to a studio in the woods just outside New York to hone and expand on the sound that saw their debut Cokefloat! acclaimed by the likes of Pitchfork, SPIN and nominated in their homeland of Scotland for the Scottish Album of the Year awards.

Recording at Adam Pierce's (Mice Parade/ Swirlies) studio in the woods outside of New York City, PAWS produced the album themselves in an attempt to strive for the sound that they had always imagined for the band. As Phillip Taylor from the band says “It feels like everybody considers our debut LP to be ‘lo-fi’, which really bothered us as we felt it was the complete opposite by comparison to our early releases.” He states that he wanted Youth Culture Forever to be “bigger and louder, softer and quieter” and to “present the potential of our dynamic range more accurately than the first album.”

Of the album’s title Taylor explains that it came to the band when he and Josh Swinney’, PAWS’ drummer were watching an episode of the cartoon Adventure Time. ”One of the main characters screams “Youth Culture Forever!” jubilantly in an act of defiance towards an older character who was telling him that his new-fangled youthful ways of thinking and acting were silly and naïve. We just thought that it was a really great message. Life is forever changing and the problems we face as human beings are forever changing. The youth will always hold the potential to make change.”

Past Shows


Sep
14
th
2017
7th St Entry
Sep
14
th
2017
7th St Entry

The Cribs

with PAWS
Oct
12
th
2014
Turf Club
Oct
12
th
2014
Turf Club

Total Slacker and PAWS

with Flashlights
Apr
26
th
2014
7th St Entry
Apr
26
th
2014
7th St Entry

We Are Scientists

with PAWS
Nov
18
th
2013
7th St Entry
Nov
18
th
2013
7th St Entry

PAWS

with FURY THINGS

More Shows

May
20
th
7th St Entry

Guitar Wolf

with Hans Condor
May
12
th
7th St Entry

Garcia Peoples

with P.G. Six
Jun
6
th
7th St Entry

The 99ers

with Bruise Violet, Surly Grrly and Black Widows
Jul
17
th
7th St Entry

Moken

with Zoë Says Go and theyself