The critically-acclaimed, multi-platinum selling band Young The Giant have announced their first UK/EU tour since 2019. The tour follows their mammoth summer long North American tour and this past fall’s release of American Bollywood, their first album in four years.
Young The Giant recently shared an acoustic version of the standout song “The Walk Home” from American Bollywood. The track is part of the upcoming acoustic EP, Both Sides, out June 2nd via AWAL/Jungle Youth Records.
The EP was recorded at Sunset Sound studio in Los Angeles, CA, the same studio their self-titled debut record was recorded in. The EP includes acoustic versions of “Dancing In The Rain” and “The Walk Home,” plus a special “Reflections” version of “The Walk Home” and an acoustic cover of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now.” The band has also shared a live video for “The Walk Home (Acoustic),” filmed at Sunset Sound by Drew Dempsey.
American Bollywood is now available on vinyl on the band’s webstore and streaming everywhere via AWAL/Jungle Youth Records. A Spotify Fans First edition is also available as an exclusive “thank you” to the band’s top listeners on the platform.
Since the last album, Mirror Master, three of the band members became fathers. With lyrics mostly written by the band’s lead singer Sameer Gadhia, the son of Indian immigrants, the album tells the multi-generational saga of the American immigrant, and the origins, exiles, battles, and denouement of reclaiming their collective identity.
“This is not just the story of an Indian-American caught in between two worlds,” the band’s Sameer Gadhia previously said, “it’s also our universal search to find meaning in chaos.” The album was co-produced by John Hill (Santigold, M.I.A., Phantogram, Khalid) and the members of Young The Giant.
The band play Gorilla in Manchester on the 4th October 2023
