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Single review: Young Buffalo – Catapilah (Young & Lost Club)

By | Published on Wednesday 26 January 2011

Young Buffalo

Recent signings to US label Fat Possum, three-piece outfit Young Buffalo team up with Wavves producer Kyle ‘Slick’ Johnson for their storming debut single, ‘Catapilah’.

Despite some considerable blog-based hype, not to mention the backing of Zane Lowe (who recently championed them on his reshuffled Radio 1 breakfast slot), the promising young band remain Mississippi’s best kept secret. Sounding – sort of – like the southern rebel cousins of Fleet Foxes, Young Buffalo are under the same management as Arctic Monkeys and – like Alex Turner et al in their earlier days – they possess a strong musical instinct that belies their tender years.

This is an exuberant anthem free from any pretence or posturing, driven forward untiringly by a rattling backbeat and a soaring shared vocal of sweet triad harmonies. The chorus is instantly memorable, lastingly catchy and bawled at the top of their lungs in proper rabble-rousing fashion. Stay tuned for more tunes from this lot. AB

Physical release: 14 Feb



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