artist Young Galaxy

YOUNG GALAXY MAKE THIRD ALBUM WITH STUDIO'S DAN LISSVIK
Montreal art-rockers are transformed on SHAPESHIFTING

For their third LP, Young Galaxy gave themselves away. SHAPESHIFTING's
11 new songs, lithe and mesmerizing, were completed at home and then
sent away, across the ocean, to one of the world's most acclaimed and
secretive producers. For nine months, Dan Lissvik, half of the Swedish
duo Studio, curved and refashioned these tracks; he made and remade
them. In October, Lissvik sat down at his computer in Gothenburg. Young
Galaxy sat down at their computer in Montreal. And across 3,500 miles,
Skype-ing with a friend they have never met, Young Galaxy heard their
third album for the first time. The finished album is glittering, seductive and utterly unlike
anything Young Galaxy have done before. After the Polaris-nominated
INVISIBLE REPUBLIC, Young Galaxy were dreaming of transformation,
transmutation, change. They imagined the parallel universe version of
their own band, a Young Galaxy that was never "epic", rarely "rock" -
instead sexy, spacious, haunted by ghosts in silver, black and primary
colours. Whereas they once wrote songs of pounding drums and cresting
guitar, this time the four-piece sketched their love of New Order, the
Knife and the Eurythmics. Lissvik, best known for his work with Studio and recent remixes for
Fever Ray and Bear In Heaven, has helped make SHAPESHIFTING a thing of
cold reverb and hot drums, synth and coo, luck and loss. After a year
that's seen them play with Arcade Fire, Stars, Twin Shadow and many
more, Young Galaxy will bring these new songs on tour beginning in
2011.