And there were a lot of things we had to deal with in Panic! that were the opposite of that. You know, I mean, just with music in general, for me, being in a band, or at least, the band I want to be in, it’s about making music and having fun… and doing stuff that’s real, stuff that makes you happy. Yeah, I mean, “Take a Vacation!” was the first song we wrote for the album, and we probably wrote it a year before we left Panic!, so I guess, subliminally, we were writing about the state of where we were and where we felt like we wanted to be, I guess. Did you envision Vacation as a sort of aural escape, and would you say this album is a reaction to the music you made before? The title of your latest album sounds almost like a sales pitch: Take a Vacation! It seems like an invitation to plug into some music that is more stress-free and not as, let’s say, labored or frenetic as the Panic! stuff. Pretty much! We came up with a few cool ones, but they had already been taken - the Chills, I guess they’re a big New Zealand band. It comes from two weeks of us in the studio throwing out names because we had to decide on one before we could release a song. Where did the name the Young Veins come from?
THE YOUNG VEINS TAKE A VACATION FULL ALBUM FULL
So it’s going to be an awesome summer tour, full of good friends, good times, and good music. And the band opening is Black Gold - the drummer and keyboard player actually played on our album Take a Vacation! before we had a band. I met the Rooney guys about five years ago on a tour that I was an extra guitar tech on. We just had our first show of the Rooney tour last night in San Diego. We’re somewhere between San Diego and Anaheim. PopMatters had the chance to chat with Walker as he and the band were taking a break between dates on the road with Rooney, during which we discussed musical influences, hecklers, the difficult decision to leave Panic!, and what it’s like going from stadiums to tiny clubs.įirst off, where are you right now and what’s going on? Odd., Walker and co-writer/guitarist Ryan Ross decided to take a little vacation of their own, abandoning the mothership for a new project, the Young Veins, and head-scratching new sonic template ’60s-style pop reminiscent of the Beatles and the Kinks. Two years ago, just as his former band, Panic! at the Disco, was reaching their highest peaks of emo girl adoration and chart success with 2008’s well-received Pretty. When he says, “I’m done tryin’ to fit in” you might ask if anyone was ever really demanding that of him.Everybody loves a good vacation. It is also on personal and vulnerable songs like Are You Down – which brings to mind Tupac’s How Long Will They Mourn Me – where he excels and reveals “be lyin’ if I said I was broke now” while worrying if anyone will listen to him when he’s gone or the musical times change.Ĭomplexity to Dallas’ raps which aim for sense more than hitting a simplistic rhymeĪlthough when spins off about not conforming on Fit In (which is actually also witty in places) you do sense that maybe he doth protest too much. It doesn’tįallen friend on Don’t Flinch is a piece of engaging soul rap about sad rageĪnd desperation.
Lot of politics and social change, and it comes naturally from him. Sadness in Dallas’ raps/songs and an emotional resilience which rare.Īs before he has much to say, but now his targets are more identifiable: the welfare state, finance companies (the early single and quite extraordinary Don’t Rate That), a This time out on his fourth album the missives from Auckland’s south are as full of confidence and doubt as before, there is both anger and Most important artists in contemporary New Zealand because he broadcastsįrom a deep culture and articulates important ideas from within it.Īnd Sid Diamond) from his last album Falling Into Place four years ago title isĮssential listening and a voice that demands to be heard.
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