With loud stares and still movements, Young Fathers work an unnerving energy into their live set to mirror the wide scope of social issues they tackle and unravel in their music. Performing Only God Knows from the Trainspotting 2 soundtrack, a film partly set in their hometown of Edinburgh, Young Fathers did not take their performance duties lightly. Young Fathers’ music is a thundering clash of genres, with raps that sound like poetic diary entries, regretful soliloquies or repetitive statements of rebellion, and purposefully clunky electronica music. The energy that Young Fathers sends out needs a receiver, so if the mood in the room is off, then the tension that they create will fall flat. Young Fathers play the Academy, Dublin, on March 28th.

Source: The Irish Times March 26, 2018 03:56 UTC