Young Galaxy is a Canadian
indie pop
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/
dream pop
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band formed in 2005 in
Vancouver
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, whose members are husband and wife, Stephen Ramsay and Catherine McCandless.
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History
Young Galaxy formed in
Vancouver
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as a duo including Stephen Ramsay and Catherine McCandless. Through that summer of 2005 and the spring of 2006 they recorded with appearances and contributions of friends at Jace Lasek's Breakglass Studio. Their sound has been described as similar to the bands
Slowdive
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,
Galaxie 500
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and
Luna
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as well as
Pink Floyd and
Spiritualized
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.
[
] The band has toured in Canada, The United States and Europe, opening for
Arcade Fire
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,
Peter, Bjorn and John,
Stars
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and
Death Cab For Cutie
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. They later moved to
Montreal
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, where they recorded their
self-titled debut. The album was released April 24, 2007 on Arts & Crafts.
They recorded their second album, ''
Invisible Republic'', in Montreal at Hotel2Tango studio with Radwan Moumneh engineering (
A Silver Mt. Zion
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, Pas Chic Chic) and at Breakglass Studios with
Jace Lasek
Jace Lasek is a Canadian musician and producer living in Montreal. He and his wife Olga Goreas are the principal songwriters for the Montreal-based indie rock band The Besnard Lakes. Lasek plays guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. He is also the b ...
of
The Besnard Lakes
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engineering. ''Invisible Republic'' was released independently on August 25, 2009. It was mixed by Tony Doogan (
Mogwai
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,
Belle & Sebastian,
Snow Patrol) in Glasgow, Scotland. It was subsequently released in July 2010 in the US by
Paper Bag Records
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History
The label was created to focus on the Toronto-area indie rock music scene. Initial signing ...
, and received a long list nomination for the
2010 Polaris Music Prize. The band followed up in fall 2010 with ''YG No Art EP'', an
EP comprising unreleased tracks and remixes from the ''Invisible Republic'' sessions.
Their third album, ''
Shapeshifting'', was produced by
Dan Lissvik of the band
Studio in
Gothenburg,
Sweden. The album was released in February 2011 on Paper Bag Records and April 2011 in Europe through the Norwegian label,
Smalltown Supersound
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Their catalog features albums by Kelly Lee Owens, Deathprod, Ne ...
. The album was long-listed for the
Polaris Music Prize in 2011 and made it to many year-end lists. Shortly after the release of Shapeshifting, two remix EPs for the singles from that album, 'Cover Your Tracks' and 'We Have Everything', were released and featured remixes from bands and producers who are friends with Young Galaxy. Following that, 'Versus', another free remix EP was released, which featured Young Galaxy remixing songs of their friends in other bands.
Young Galaxy's fourth album, ''
Ultramarine
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'', was released on April 23, 2013.
In June 2013, the album was shortlisted for the
. This was their first album in which all lead vocals were performed solely by McCandless.
Their fifth album, ''Falsework'', was released on October 30, 2015, produced by Dan Lissvik.
In 2017, the band released two one-off singles, "Stay For Real", and "Elusive Dream".
On January 10, 2018, Young Galaxy announced a new album, ''Down Time'', along with the first single, "Under My Wing". It was released on April 6, 2018, and is their first album released as a fully independent band. In September of the same year they released their ''Snow Leopard'' EP, and announced an indefinite hiatus.
Discography
Albums
*2007 ''
Young Galaxy''
*2009 ''
Invisible Republic''
*2011 ''
Shapeshifting''
*2013 ''
Ultramarine
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''
*2015 ''Falsework''
*2018 ''Down Time''
EPs
*2006 ''Swing Your Heartache''
*2010 ''YG No Art''
*2011 ''Cover Your Tracks''
*2011 ''We Have Everything''
*2011 ''Versus''
*2012 "Shoreless Kid/Youth Is Wasted On The Young" (7" single)
*2018 ''Snow Leopard''
References
External links
Young Galaxyofficial website
Young GalaxyBandcamp store
at
Arts & Crafts Productions
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Arts & Crafts Productions artists
Canadian indie pop groups
Canadian synthpop groups
Dream pop musical groups
Musical groups established in 2005
Musical groups from Montreal
Paper Bag Records artists
Fontana North artists