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TAPE ONE / TAPE TWO

by Young Fathers

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minirowl
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minirowl I just love their unique sound
Nick Kelly
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Nick Kelly Tape Two hooked me. The writing and the unique sound and flow. Nobody like Young Fathers. Both projects are great.
Dr.Fell
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Dr.Fell In my 17 years as a free form radio dj In Milwaukee, I would be hard pressed to find a more important band than Young Fathers. I’ve tried halfheartedly to describe exactly why, but there is so much to feel, and so much to hear, that I always just end up personally absorbing, instead of editorializing. And that suits me just fine. Thank you Young Fathers.
MotelMerc
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MotelMerc thought there'd be unlimited streaming on the Bandcamp app... Silly me I guess.
love the albums though ! can't wait until the CDs come
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  • Compact Disc (CD)

    CD’s version combines Tape One and Tape Two into one digipack package.

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  • Young Fathers - 'Tape One / Tape Two' 2 x LP [BD277/78]
    Record/Vinyl

    LP version combines Tape One and Tape Two into one gatefold vinyl + includes postcard insert w/ download code stickers on the back.

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  • Young Fathers - 'Tape One / Tape Two' 2 x Cassette [BDCAS277/78]
    Cassette

    Cassette version combines Tape One and Tape Two into one double cassette package.

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about

Music fans often imagine that, if they had been around at the time, they would have been one of the very few thousands of people who bought The Velvet Underground’s ‘banana’ debut album, or Love’s Forever Changes. Hindsight casts such albums as ‘classics’ but, at the time of their respective releases they were hardly noticed.

The re-release of Young Father’s debut ‘mixtape’ TAPE ONE and it’s follow up TAPE TWO gives us a chance to reappraise two albums that sat firmly outside the mainstream in 2011/12 and still seem prescient today.

Re-mastered by renowned engineer Mandy Parnell and available as a double record on vinyl, CD and cassette they retain the ability to create the feeling that they have been viciously ripped from the basement studio in Leith where they were recorded.

TAPE ONE was recorded within a week. It was first released in November 2011 as a free download and limited edition cassette with individually spray-painted sleeves. TAPE TWO was recorded almost immediately afterwards, in January 2012. Eventually LA based label Anticon picked up both albums and gave them a limited release in the USA.

In 2014, TAPE TWO won the prestigious SAY Award (Scottish Album of the Year) which brought a cash prize of £20,000, worth a similar amount to the $10,000 awarded to Sly and the Family Stone at the Ohio State fair for ‘Most Outstanding New Talent of 1968. What does this mean? Who knows? Who cares? Who gives a fuck?

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released June 16, 2017

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Young Fathers Edinburgh, UK

Young Fathers were christened in 2008, named after the fact that all three members were named for their fathers..
They are:
‘G’ Hastings, from Drylaw, Edinburgh, Alloysious Massaquoi, originally from Liberia via Ghana and Kayus Bankole, born in Edinburgh to Nigerian parents but partially raised in Maryland in the USA, all 27 years old.
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